Independent Research and Policy Advocacy

October 15, 2020 | Dvara Research

This note was first published as a part of session 2 of the four-part webinar series hosted by Dvara Research and IndiaSpend.

October 13, 2020 | Dvara Research

Dvara Research, in collaboration with Gram Vaani, University of Montreal, and Tika Vaani has been selected for the Azim Premji University COVID-19 Research Funding Programme 2020

By Team SPI
October 12, 2020 | Dvara Research

This note was first published as a part of session 1 of the four-part webinar series hosted by Dvara Research and IndiaSpend.

By Hasna Ashraf, Dvara Research, Dr. Nachiket Mor
October 8, 2020 | lse

In Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism, Mareile Pfannebecker and J.A. Smith address the problems in the prevailing discourse on work and outline how exactly we can put a post-work future into practice.

By Anupama Kumar
October 6, 2020

This response identifies some overarching concerns with the Report that we seek to convey and substantiate. They are categorised under the following three sections: Section 1: The Report fails to identify the basis for a separate regulatory regime to regulate non-personal data (NPD).

By FFI
October 6, 2020 | Dvara Research

In this blog post, we present our comments to the Report by the Committee of Experts on Non-Personal Data Governance Framework

By FFI
October 1, 2020 | Dvara Research

Dvara Research is a not-for-profit policy research and advocacy institute whose primary mission is to ensure access to financial services for all individuals and enterprises.

By Anupama Kumar, Apoorva Bantula
October 1, 2020 | Dvara Research

In this post, we examine some questions with respect to India’s minimum wage laws, in light of the Code on Wages, 2019 and the Draft Wages Code Rules, 2020

By Anupama Kumar, Apoorva Bantula
September 29, 2020 | Dvara Research

The Social Protection Initiative organised a closed-door virtual roundtable discussion on social security for self-employed workers

By Team SPI
September 28, 2020 | Dvara Research

In the wake of COVID-19 related lockdown and the resultant impact on the financial lives of millions of households, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) approved a series of regulatory measures, which among others, enabled lending institutions to provide their borrowers with a 6 month-repayment moratorium on term loans. A debt moratorium at this scale […]

By Dwijaraj Bhattacharya, Misha Sharma, Monami Dasgupta