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Mindtree’s Experience in Global Learning Centre

20 September 2016
Mindtree Ltd. is a publicly-traded information technology services and solutions organization serving global customers. Changing learning models to adjust to client needs based on demographics, fine-tuning approaches on a continuous basis, and removing the fear of assessments while learning are…

University-Industry Linkages: Experiences at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

20 September 2016
Facilitating the natural flow of knowledge generation and innovation to its logical conclusion through academia-industry-state (AIS) linkages leads to societal benefits. With the aim to catalyze entrepreneurship for positive socio-economic impact, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur’s AIS…

Skills Development for Priority Sectors: An Indian Perspective

20 September 2016
Skills development for priority sectors in India is a shared responsibility of the government, industry, training provider, and the trainee as stakeholders comprising the value chain. This presentation discusses how the social entrepreneurial initiative Gram Tarang through the Centurion University…

Review of Retail Electricity Tariffs

5 September 2016
Electricity subsidies are often paid out if government budgets exceed all spending on education, healthcare, and rural support. In order to subsidize low residential customer prices, governments impose higher prices on industrial customers, which discourages new investment and encourage…

How Can Impact Evaluation Methodologies Capture Gender Equity Impacts?

2 September 2016
This presentation explores the impact of electricity on gender. It features Asian Development Bank’s intervention approach in the form of an evaluation exercise. It also examines if the intended objectives of this method have improved women’s quality of life and empowerment.

ADB and IFMR Workshop: Discussion Highlights

3 June 2016
This article summarizes the discussions during the different workshop sessions on catastrophe risk protection markets in India.

Lagging Performance of Agriculture Sector

24 May 2016
The lagging performance of India’s agriculture sector affects majority of rural dwellers. Limited access to affordable funding for farmers constrains potential investments in agriculture. This presentation shares suggestions on how to address the challenges of financial inclusion for farmers to…

Customer-Centricity for Financial Inclusion

24 May 2016
Customer-centricity is the key to real financial inclusion with digitization as the tool towards this transformation. Recently, there has been a big push to promote digital financial inclusion in India with some examples featured in this presentation. The success and benefits as well as the…

BASIX Social Enterprise Group

24 May 2016
BASIX Social Enterprise Group, at the forefront of financial inclusion, offers affordable, accessible, and scalable digital payments solutions to the bottom of the pyramid (BoP) segment in India. This presentation discusses the stages of microfinance digitization based from BASIX’s experience.

Interventions to be Evaluated

14 April 2016
Two interventions under the Asian Development Bank’s energy efficiency improvement investment program in India’s Madhya Pradesh are evaluated in this presentation. Hypothesis testing was used to determine whether it is true or not that “rural electrification leads to improved living standards,” and…