By Udaibir Das
While the digitalisation of finance advances and the potential introduction of central bank digital currency might aid finance in Africa, it is not enough.
The time for Africa’s financial transformation is now
Delivering Digital G2P Payments to Urban Informal Populations
By Anit Mukherjee, Ubah Thomas Ubah, Brian Webster, Wendy Cunningham, and Georgina Marin
Using data from three countries, this paper finds that digital government-to-person (G2P) payments were effective in reaching urban informal sector beneficiaries quickly and safely during the COVID-19 crisis.
Digital Development: Emulating India's Digital Public Infrastructure to Reach the Sustainable Development Goals
Bank of England exercises aim to better understand market dynamics
By Udaibir Das
The past 50 years have seen shifts in the global financial system’s behaviour. Major market crises, such as the 1997 Asian crisis and the 2008 financial crisis, have resulted in more robust financial policies focused on licensed entities.
Cash Transfers in the Context of Energy Subsidy Reform: Insights from Recent Experience
By Anit Mukherjee, Yuko Okamura, Ugo Gentilini, Defne Gencer, Mohamed Almenfi, Adea Kryeziu, Miriam Montenegro, and Nithin Umapathi
Over the past several decades, as part of the evolving understanding of energy subsidy reforms, there has been growing recognition of the potential of targeted cash transfers to support the poor and vulnerable to help governments achieve desired policy outcomes at lower fiscal cost and in a sustainable manner.
Rebooting Development Finance: An Agenda for Reforming Multilateral Development Banks
India rising as leader of emerging economies. Now Delhi must ally with Latin America too
By Anit Mukherjee & José Barrera
The Raisina Dialogue held in New Delhi in March 2023 provided a forum where officials, academics, and leaders from around the world, including Latin America, met to discuss global governance issues.
Digital-First Approach to Emergency Cash Transfers: Step-Kin in the Democratic Republic of Congo
By Anit Mukherjee, Laura Bermeo, Yuko Okamura, Jimmy Vulembera, and Paul Bance
This study looks in depth at Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) approach to delivering emergency cash transfers: the Solidarity through Economic Transfers Against the Poverty in Kinshasa (STEP-KIN) program.
China makes sweeping reform to financial sector regulation
By Udaibir Das
While the world is preoccupied with the stability of the western banking system, China has been busy overhauling its financial regulatory architecture.
India emerging as leader in global crypto framework efforts
Can Digital G2P Payments Increase Financial Inclusion and Empower Women? Evidence from PESP in Bangladesh
By Anit Mukherjee, Alan Gelb, and Brian Webster
This study considers the experience of the mothers with the shift to mobile money, and to the change in payments service provider that took place in 2019, through a survey of recipients and a control group.
Budget 2023 must focus on agricultural productivity, not production. Go beyond populism
By Anit Mukherjee
Data is a challenge, but with imaginative incentives, metrics, and solutions such as an AgriStack, we can look forward to a new agricultural revolution over the coming decade.
Models of Social Payments through Inua Jamii
By Anit Mukherjee, Alan Gelb, and Brian Webster
This study surveys the payment system from the perspective of recipients, including their views on convenience and the benefits from competition.
Building Resilient Global Value Chain Linkages in India: Findings from an Enterprise Survey
By Terri B. Chapman, Jhanvi Tripathi & Rakesh Kumar Sinha
This report examines how India can better integrate into GVCs while building resilience.
Exploring the Inequities of Climate Finance
By Terri B. Chapman & Mannat Jaspal
Who does the climate finance architecture serve most, who is left behind, and how is it shaping inequality between countries?
High-Income and Highly Unequal: The US Falls Behind in SDGs 8 and 10
By Terri B. Chapman
The US lags in achievement towards several of the targets under SDG 8 and SDG 10.
