📢 Publication of the first ODRIIS Policy Brief
The first ODRIIS Policy Brief has just been published! In it, Isabelle Guérin, Arnaud Natal and G. Venkatasubramanian explain why it is important to measure household debt in informal economies,...
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New publication “Debt and the Politics of Numbers: Hegemonic Numbers, Political Numbers, Ordinary Numbers”
Isabelle Guérin and Venkatasubramanian have published an article in Review of Political Economy, entitled “Debt and the Politics of Numbers: Hegemonic Numbers, Political Numbers, Ordinary Numbers”. Abstract: Numbers are both...
Publication of “A crisis like no other”
The final report on the “Depleted by debt” project in South India is now available. The COVID-19 pandemic worsened the long-standing problems of debt distress and food insecurity already impacting...
Publication of “The Indebted Woman: Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism”
Isabelle Guérin, G. Venkatasubramanian, and Santosh Kumar have published a book entitled “The Indebted Woman: Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism”. Abstract: Women, and particularly poor women, have become essential cogs in the...
“Debt, a new form of women’s work” in The Conversation
Isabelle GuĂ©rin, Elena Reboul and TimothĂ©e Narring recently communicated in The Conversation with an article entitled “Debt, a new form of women’s work”. The article is available in french here.
New publication “Locus de contrôle, identité sociale et endettement en Inde du Sud ”
Arnaud Natal and Christophe Jalil Nordman have published an article in Revue d’Économie du DĂ©veloppement, entitled “Locus of control, social identity and indebtedness in South India”. Abstract: Using original data...
New publication “Financial inclusion and gender”
Isabelle Guérin has contributed to the Handbook of Microfinance, Financial Inclusion and Development, recently edited by Valentina Hartarska (Auburn University, USA) and Robert Cull (Lead Economist at the World Bank...
How Indian Financial Infrastructure Failed during the Pandemic
In November 2019, the ODRIIS Observatory in collaboration with Royal Holloway, University of London and various partners in India and Cambodia, started the research project Depleted by Debt? Focusing on...