Policy BriefEconomic Policy

Vision for Advancing and Anchoring Productive Sending of Income (VAAPSI)

Written by Divyansh Shah, Radhika Jain, Simin Sanil · Published on 02 Jun 2026

This policy brief examines India’s remittance economy and proposes a structural policy framework to redirect remittance inflows toward productive investment.

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Digital Welfare and Women’s Exclusion in India: How Aadhaar-linked Systems Affect Informal Women Workers

Written by Parneet Kaur

Nearly half (51%) of rural Indian women aged 15 and above lack mobile phones, a basic enabler of digital welfare access, underscoring how rapidly expanding Aadhaar-linked social programs risk excluding the very populations they intend to support.

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