Data Protection Bill | Three changes that will sharpen draft Bill
Protecting citizens’ privacy is a pre-eminent mandate of any data protection regime. The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill appears to have departed farther away from that mandate
From digitisation to platformisation — how social protection schemes can be made more accessible
Social Protection Open Digital Ecosystems (SP-ODEs) can provide beneficiaries, government and service providers a unified, digital platform to better access welfare schemes.
Can financial decisions be free of emotion? Why it’s not the case in Indian households
The social dimension of household finances is often missed by popular commentary on finance, which sees such decisions as being made by an individual for only themselves.
How banking infrastructure impacts citizens’ withdrawal of social protection benefits
The delivery infrastructure that supports social protection is in serious need of upheaval and is fraught with issues such as paucity of access points, operational issues causing transaction failure, and unethical activities like fraud.
Backend botch-ups hamper Direct Benefit Transfer payments
More than half the payment failures may be due to incorrect Aadhaar details, or bank accounts that are wrongly flagged as inactive
A Social Stock Exchange For India
Social enterprises will have to conform to much higher standards of reporting than they are conventionally used to.
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Take stock of financial well-being
As an impact metric, it is relevant for financial inclusion and other development programmes
DBT schemes need a digital grievance redressal system
DBT schemes are meant to ride on digital rails to facilitate smooth direct cash transfers. However, transfers are not always smooth.
Banking | Are Indian investors of a lesser god?
By requiring only limited public reporting on asset quality, banks in India have enjoyed a level of opacity that banks in other jurisdictions do not
A Tale of Trade-offs: The Anatomy of the Direct Benefit Transfers System
While the system was rightly designed to eliminate ghost beneficiaries, the impact of exclusion errors needs to be professionally and independently evaluated in detail.