Policy UpdateSruti Halder Background India’s credit market has long suffered from a mismatch between the volume of formal financial data generated by citizens and enterprises and lenders’ ability to access it efficiently. Borrower information land records, tax filings, credit bureau…
Policy UpdateRashi Kothari Background The Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) phenomenon in India has emerged as a prominent structural shift in retail credit since 2021, accelerated by the integration of the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) with instant digital underwriting. Unlike…
For decades, India's public health system relied largely on demand-side interventions such as expanding insurance coverage and beneficiary support.
For decades, the standard critique of the Indian public health sector was its single-minded obsession with "demand-side" adjustments.
Policy UpdateSneha Sharma Introduction & The Global Existence World MSME Day owes its existence not to symbolism but to built-on deliberate consensus. On 6 April 2017, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution A/RES/71/279, designating 27 June as Micro, Small,…
Hon’able Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent appeal asking Indians to voluntarily avoid purchasing gold jewellery for one year is not merely a symbolic patriotic gesture.
TK Arun In 1992, Pope John Paul II issued a declaration acknowledging that it was wrong for theologians of the Church to have condemned Galileo for his heliocentric theory in the 17th century. On 17 March, World Bank chief economist Indermit Gill reprised…