High transaction and contracting costs are often thought to create credit and savings market failures in developing … improved "technology" for managing informal, collaborative village-based savings groups. Such groups allow, in theory, for more … efficient and lower- cost loans and informal savings, and in practice have been scaled up by international non …

in rural Odisha, India. This is a group for whom highly-gendered norms around marriage, mobility and work are likely to …

This paper examines the hypothesis that the persistence of low spatial and marital mobility in rural India, despite … smooth consumption in rural India for the foreseeable future, as they have for centuries, unless alternative consumption …

two districts of Uttar Pradesh, India. The net profit generated ignoring labour costs, gives rise to a small positive rate …

provide new evidence, from a randomized control trial conducted in rural Orissa, India (one of the poorest places in India …