Getting the Problem Right
In terms of the age-old problem of helping farmers increase their productivity and income, I don’t think agricultural credit and fina...
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Lest We Forget
To my mind, the biggest challenge of social science research using survey data is reconciling the rigours of mathematical analysis with the...
Reporting live from Satara - HDI through field glasses
My first blog post from Satara was a basic introduction to our project on long term savings and the second was about some preliminary re...
What scheme would you like? - Let's ask the poor ..
Yesterday evening I attended a SPARK session (symposium like talks on various topics pertaining to development economics held frequently a...
Morning reality check
A headline in yesterday's New York Times illustrates once again the gap between two Indias: The one we live in, urban India, where t...
Financing higher education in India - Education Loans can never be the only solution
In my previous blogs, I have spoken in great length about the need for public expenditure in higher education. In this section, I would lik...
Problems with Financing Higher Education in India
The debate surrounding around the issues with financing higher education is primarily because ‘education’ is considered to be a quasi- p...
How is higher education financed in India?
Within the economics literature, education is considered to be one of the classic public goods (Grace, 1989). Public good is a good where b...
Data vs Ideology - what works for the poor?
Nate Silver -the man who challenged American political pundits to follow math - not their guts. I might sound full of pride- but this is p...
Who are we saving? What are we saving?
"I don't earn enough to save!", "I have too many debts!", "I think savings require a huge amount to be set as...
Remembering the Field
Drawing by Samira Jain I have not taken any photos of any of my field experiences in Bihar, mostly due to an inexplicable sense of disc...
Tiruchirappalli - it's a mouthful isn't it? Thoughts of an intern from the field
Just a week ago, I had the opportunity to visit a rural village near Trichy, Tamil Nadu to assist with the pilot of an upcoming s...
Are RCTs Enough?
I’ve noticed that the gold standard in Microfinance research seems to be the “randomized control trial”, offering an unsurpassed level of ...
To Research or not?
For an institution such as the Centre for Microfinance, I am sure many factors are considered before a research project is initiated - is ...
Microcredit: Hero or Anti-Hero?
Is the glass half empty or half full? For the meaning of this phrase, click here
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