Private Sector Development Archives

How Can We Fix the Gender Inequality in India’s Sanitation Woes?
By Deepa Karthykeyan
(The following article is an excerpt from the book ‘Voices on South Asia: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Women’s Status, Challenges...
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World Toilet Day: Enhancing Toilet Use in Ghana
By John Harvey
Almost 23% of people in Ghana do not have access to any sanitation facility, and only 15% use improved...
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Internships at Athena Infonomics: In Their Own Words
By John Harvey
An internship at Athena Infonomics allows you to develop, both professionally and by creating an impact in people’s everyday…
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Internships at Athena Infonomics: Develop through Data
By John Harvey
An internship at Athena Infonomics allows you to develop, both professionally and by creating an impact in people’s everyday…
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India’s Child Labor Problem: Could Education Reforms be the Solution?
By Dr. Rajarshi Singh
The world’s third largest economy, India, is home to a third of the world’s poor, with 22% of its...
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Identifying Contexts for Relationships between Coverage of Health Interventions and Infant Mortality Rate in African Countries
By Raghuveer Dinavahi
The correlation between the Composite Coverage Index and the Infant Mortality Rate is negative, suggesting that such interventions may…
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Greater Research is Needed on Mental Health and Urban Planning in the Global South
By Samvita Kalyan Kumar
The link between urban living and mental health has been long established, even as early as the 1900s when...
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The 5Ds: Changing Attitudes to Open Defecation in India
By Vandana Mehra Dharmendra Singh
This blog entry has been re-published with the express permission of The World Bank Water Global Practice, New Delhi....
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Using Data Science to Predict Future Increases in Women and Girls’ Literacy Rates
By Raghuveer Dinavahi
Methodology To calculate the estimates, a model which has the starting point 0 (which indicates 0 zero literacy rate...
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Spouse’s Signature in Loan Contracts – Signing Off on Women’s Socio-Economic Empowerment
By Ambrin M
Demanding a spousal signature for loan contracts has an implicit permission stemming from the underlying power dynamic relating to…
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From Female to Daughter and Granddaughter Feticide
By John Harvey
Acknowledging all identities imposed on the fetus and its perceived threat to the family, may be powerful in combating…
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Monitoring and Evaluation Systems: Role and Relevance in Central Government Schemes
By Riddhi Banerjee
Monitoring and Evaluation within the ambit of Government schemes is becoming an increasingly important phenomenon as Governments are being...
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Using Tech to Optimize Health Data Management in India
By Sais
This blog entry has been re-published on our website with the express permission of SAIS Perspectives. For the original...
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