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Background I have an undergraduate degree in Economics from Wellesley College, MA (2003), and a Master's degree in Public Administration and International Development (MPA/ID) from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2005). Current work My work at MSR India is in three broad areas: Financial service delivery to the poor and Technology In what ways can the use of technological solutions to enable various aspects of financial service delivery result in more cost-effective and scalable operations for providers, as well as cheaper, better quality finance for low-income clients. Mapping household well-being and socio-economic mobility Can we identify groups of households that exhibit similar combinations of socio-economic characteristics? Will these clusters help us identify particular socio-economic mobility factors responsible for transitions from one level of 'well-being' to another? Understanding the value of Information Technology to low-income workers What are the particular conceptions that urban low-income workers hold around IT and its value? Why and how do they adopt IT? How does IT adoption affect their lives and livelihoods?
Resources A Bibliography of interesting books on socio-economic development
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