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    The urban poor and their money: a study of cycle rickshaw pullers in Delhi

    Centre for Micro Finance, India, 2011
    Cycle rickshaw is an important mode of informal transport in metro cities and towns. The current study explores the financial behaviour of cycle rickshaw pullers in Delhi to assess their strategies and choices in saving, storing and remitting their money and the challenges and the constraints they faced in managing their money and livelihoods.
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    Impact of EKO’s SimpliBank on the saving behaviour and practices of low income customers: the Indian experience

    Centre for Micro Finance, India, 2012
    India has the second largest financially excluded poor in the world, yet given the rising mobile phone usage in the country, m-banking has a great potential for reaching unbanked population. In this respect, EKO mobile banking is an early mover in offering basic saving account to the poor in partnership with the State Bank of India on a low cost banking platform.
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    Can formal banking raise the incomes of the poor?

    Centre for Micro Finance, India, 2011
    This brief clarifies that formal banking services may be able to reduce market imperfections and financial constraints, creating the opportunity for higher incomes. However, limited supply and demand may constrain the growth of formal banking services. The paper finds that:
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    Weather indexed insurance for smallholder farmers: a survey of evidence

    Centre for Micro Finance, India, 2012
    This paper argues that weather indexed micro-insurance has the potential to be a cost effective mechanism to protect farmers against climate risks, help them shift to high yield crops, move out of subsistence farming and encourage market participation.
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    Ageing, poverty and neoliberalism in urban South India

    New Dynamics of Ageing, 2010
    Using the example of old age poverty in the Indian city of Chennai, formerly Madras, this research situates old age poverty and inter-generational relations within a multi-level framework that ranges from global economic forces to household resource allocation, taking in government policy, public discourse and gender and age discrimination.
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    From poverty to empowerment: India’s imperative for jobs, growth, and effective basic services

    McKinsey Global Institute, 2014
    More than two decades have passed since India embarked on major economic reforms—and although official poverty rates have declined sharply since then, millions of Indians continue to face significant deprivation in terms of quality of life and access to basic services.
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    Building BRICs by building stadiums: preliminary reflections on recent and future sports mega-events in four emerging economies

    International Research Institute for Sport Studies, UK, 2014
    Research on sports mega-events throughout the world has demonstrated that the benefits of staging them tend to be overestimated and the costs underestimated.
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    The Indian economy at a crossroads

    2014
    In the early 1990s, India’s embrace of economic and trade liberalization reforms yielded two decades of robust economic growth that gave rise to the so-called Indian Economic Miracle. But recently, momentum for continued liberalisation has waned.
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    Global governance and the KAS guidelines: the view from India

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2012
    The Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) guidelines are a framework for discussions on issues of global economic governance that could be relevant for all G-20 countries. This paper sets out to examine India’s approach to the guidelines against its internal and external policies and the general background of current changes and challenges in world economic governance.
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    Service sector liberalisation in India: key lessons and challenges

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2011
    The service sector is one of the fastest-growing sectors in the Indian economy. It has been integral to India’s overall liberalisation and structural reform programme, which was initiated in the 1980s and gained momentum after 1991.

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