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Evaluating School Readiness in India

The definition of school readiness is located within a framework that has two characteristic features: transition and gaining competencies and the readiness of three entities, children, families and communities, and schools themselves. There is enough evidence at the global and national levels to establish the role of school readiness in

Accelerating Financial Inclusion for Women’s SHGs with Account Aggregators

The emergence of Digital Public Infrastructure like Account Aggregators (AA) paves the way for financial inclusion of many underserved communities in India. It has the potential to empower millions of customers to digitally access and share their financial data across institutions, resulting in the creation of their digital financial identity. 

Gender-Lensed Public Procurement in India

Although existing literature suggests that there has been greater inclusion of gender-equality across legal regulations, the literature also suggests a gap in policy translating to action.

Decoding Account Aggregators with Shalini Gupta

Despite gains in its financial inclusion journey, access to financial services is limited to 86% of India’s population. Access to credit specifically is a persistent challenge, reflected in the unmet credit need of Rs 25 lakh crores – aggravated by disaggregated data and tedious data sharing processes. Account aggregators are

Understanding Digital Readiness of Small Healthcare Providers

‘Digital health,’ the intersection between technology intervention and healthcare, has the potential to support equitable, affordable and effective healthcare systems. The Indian government is taking several steps toward the digitisation of the healthcare sector to enable the achievement of Universal Health Coverage (UHC). The Jan Dhan Yojana, Aadhaar and Mobile

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