Directory of Research and Expertise

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Research Summary and Profile

Research interests:

Colonies & Colonization, emigration & immigration, Communities, Classes, Races, Globalization & Development, Political Institutions, Social Sciences

Regions:

Africa, Asia

Summary of research interests and expertise:

Migration, remittances and financial inclusion/exclusion; formal sector finance; policy towards the informal financial sector; livelihood diversification and migration.

Project summary relevant to Fellowship:

Research Funding secured from the British Academy to update and expand a longitudinal study on livelihood diversification and migration in an Indian village.

Research conducted for a GIZ study of domestic migration and remittances in India.

Publication Details

Related publications/articles:

Date	Details
03-Feb-2021	Good businesses and good archives Perspectives from the records of a moneylender in rural India Chapters In Social Aims of Finance. Rediscovering varieties of credit in financial archives. Editors: Anna Cantaluppi, Chloe Colchester, Lilia Costabile, Carmen Hoffmann, Catherine Schenk and Matthias Weber. Publishers: The European Association for Banking and Financial History (eabh), Fondazione 1563 per l'Arte e la Cultura della Compagnia di San Paolo, pp 277-293.
23-Feb-2018	Social hierarchy and enrolment in government and private schools in rural India: longitudinal evidence from a Rajasthan village Journal articles Oxford Review of Education 44.3: 353-369
01-May-2016	A Child of the City: a Longitudinal Study of Stratification and Migration in a Rajasthan Village Articles International Review of Social Research, 6(3), pp. 107-117.
01-Jun-2014	Domestic Migration and Remittances in India: Rajasthani Tribal Migrants working in Gujarat Journal articles  Jones, J.H.M.; Williams, M. and M.P. Joshi (2014) 'Domestic Migration and Remittances in India: Rajasthani Tribal Migrants working in Gujarat', Journal of Enterprise Development and Microfinance, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 150-162.
01-Jan-2011	Gujarat-Rajasthan Migration and Remittance Corridor Study Contribution: Lead Author Publishers: GIZ, The German Agency for International Cooperation Notes: Report submitted to GIZ
01-Jan-2011	Remittance Needs and Opportunities in India Contribution: Co-Author Publishers: GIZ, The German Agency for International Cooperation Notes: Report submitted to GIZ and launched by the Union Minister of Finance, New Delhi, 02 August 2011

Relevant Events

Related events:

Date	Details
01-Aug-2015	What is the value of micro-level research in development? Examples from migration, informal finance and private low-cost schools in rural India BOND (the UK membership body for organisations working in international development), London, August, 2015.
02-Jul-2014	Conference presentation  Paper presented on 'Social Stratification and Changing Educational Opportunities in a Rajasthan Village' at the Conference 'How do education systems shape educational inequalities', University of Luxembourg.
21-May-2014	Microfiance Meeting  Paper presented on 'The Resiliance of Moneylender Finance in Rural India: Implications for Financial Inclusion and Microfinance' at a meeting jointly hosted by The Institute of Commonwealth Studies and the Microfinance Club UK. Respondent: Usha Thorat, Former Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India
05-Mar-2014	Seminar presentation  Seminar presentation on Remittances and Financial Inclusion given at the University of Reading
20-Feb-2014	Seminar presentation  ICwS Seminar on 'The Opprobrium Provoked by Moneylending: Differing Perspectives from Rural India'
05-Feb-2014	Seminar presentation  Seminar presentation on Informal Finance given at the University of Reading
18-Jul-2013	Conference presentation  Paper presented on 'A longitudinal Study of Stratification and Mobility in a Rajasthan Village'  at the Conference on 'New Horizons in Research on Stratification, Mobility and Inequality' at the University of Queensland, Australia
15-Nov-2012	Seminar presentation  Seminar presentation on Rural Finance and Microfinance given at The University of Reading
03-Feb-2011	Seminar presentation  Seminiar Presentation on Rural Finance and Microfinance given at the University of Reading
17-Jan-2011	Microfinance Seminar A Seminar on the crisis of Microfinance in India jointed hosted by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and the Microfinance Club UK
07-Jan-2011	Conference presentation Paper presented on 'Domestic Migration and Remittances in India' at the Migration Conference, University College London
01-Jan-2011	Seminar presentation ICwS Seminar on Rajasthani Tribal Migrants and Remittances in Gujarat
29-Aug-2010	Seminar/workshop presentation Presentation of research findings on the Gujarat-Rajasthan Migration and Remittances Study to a Workshop in New Delhi organised by NABARD and GIZ

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