Development Outlook | An IFMR LEAD Blog

Can Big Data be Big in South Asia?

How can emerging economies tap into the benefits of big data for financial inclusion? This article draws on a panel discussion on Big Data...

Digitizing Self-Help Groups in India

Recently featured on  Center for Financial Inclusion Blog , this  is a collaborative blogpost by  Shreya Chatterjee, Senior Research Ass...

Revitalizing the Self-Help Group Movement in India

Growth of the self-help group movement in India has slowed in the past five years. How can challenges be overcome to improve and revitalize...

Preliminary Findings from the KGFS Impact Evaluation Study

In this article, Iris Braun, Research Manager at IFMR LEAD, shares preliminary findings from an ongoing study by IFMR LEAD, Evidence for ...

Digital Finance in Bangladesh: Empowering or Excluding Women?

This article is part of a series of Blogposts by  Parul Agarwal and Suraj Nair  on the progress of digital financial services in Banglades...

Open Letter to Traffic Planners

Dear Traffic Police and transport planners,  I am a Chennai resident for the past year and a half. In this period, I have taken up se...

In this exclusive interview with IFMR LEAD, Dr. Sultan Hafeez Rahman, Executive Director of BRAC Institute of Governance and Develop...

Using ICT to help MSME’s prosper - A qualitative insight of Mobile based financial training in Bangalore

Pursuing funding agencies to sponsor research projects is an arduous task. It’s not easy to make the donor see the social impact a projec...