-based lending product in a new market. In 2005, half of 104 slums in Hyderabad, India were randomly selected for opening of a branch … those slums. Fifteen to 18 months after Spandana began lending in treated areas, households were 8.8 percentage points more …. Three to four years after the initial expansion (after many of the control slums had started getting credit from Spandana …

In an experiment in non-formal schools in Indian slums, a reward scheme for attending a target number of school days …

of education in urban slums. A remedial education program hired young women from the community to teach basic literacy … the results of two experiments conducted in Mumbai and Vadodara, India, designed to evaluate ways to improve the quality …

, 55% of Mumbai slums residents had antibodies to COVID-19, 3.2 times the seroprevalence in non-slum areas of the city …) higher mobility than non-slums prior to the sero-survey. We also find little evidence that mobility in non-slums was lower … than in slums during lockdown, a subset of the period before the survey …

This research provides a single explanation for: (i) the persistence of malnutrition and (ii) the increased prevalence … biological mechanism, which are validated with micro-data from India, Indonesia and Ghana can jointly explain inter …

This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal … the informal sector is moving from rural to urban locations. While the secular trend for India's manufacturing … urbanization has slowed down, the localized importance of education and infrastructure have not. Our results suggest that districts …

Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing world? We compare … American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem … to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and India look quite different. In Brazil and China, the implications …

India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty …

We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We …