Santosh Kumar Singh

Santosh Kumar Singh
Intellecap

Santosh Kumar Singh has extensive experience in research, policy advocacy, consultancy and operations of rural, agri-businesses and social businesses in India and West Africa. He has studied and analyzed (Business Plan and Business Strategy) more than 60 Base of Pyramid organizations operating in India and South Asia. He has worked on development and testing financial products for partner organization such as ICICI Bank’s (India’s largest private sector bank) rural and agribusiness divisions including irrigation loans, cattle loans and warehouse receipt financing. He has taken policy research assignments and worked on finding solutions to improve government and market’s ability to deliver basic services such as water, energy and roads.

He has worked with Harvard University’s Policy Design Initiative to evaluate impact of increased and improved access to financial services in rural areas, and also assisted in product roll-out and design of evaluations using various methodologies including randomized control trials.
He has addressed academic audience/presented papers at New York University, Duke University, John Hopkins University, IIT Chennai, and taught Rural Markets, Research Methods at IFMR and other institutions. His specialties include: Innovative Business Models, Market Based Solutions, Public Policy, Development Finance and Social Marketing.

Articles by Santosh Kumar Singh

Guest Articles

Thursday
May 9
2019

Santosh Kumar Singh / Ankit Gupta

Building an Ecosystem to Save an Ecosystem: How Facilitating Climate Finance for MSMEs Can Fight Global Climate Change

Climate finance has become a buzzword for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) working on climate solutions. But with the unique challenges these enterprises face, it has become increasingly clear that the global development community will need to reimagine the entire ecosystem in order to get them the funding they need. Santosh Kumar Singh and Ankit Gupta at Intellecap discuss the obstacles to climate finance for MSMEs, and how best to overcome them.

Categories
Environment, Investing

Tags
climate change, climate finance, global development, impact investing, MSMEs, startups
Monday
October 11
2010

Saurabh Lall / Santosh Kumar Singh

Power to the People Part II: Assessing Clean Energy Customers

Dirty cookstoves, used by as many as 3 billion people globally, are responsible for the deaths of 1.6 to 1.9 million each year, with women and children most affected. These are big numbers ? and the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves has set out to address a big problem.

Categories
Uncategorized
Thursday
September 2
2010

Saurabh Lall / Santosh Kumar Singh

Expanding the Market for Clean Energy in Rural India

As India struggles to provide cleaner and more reliable sources of energy to its rural poor, a growing number of innovative small companies, like SBA Hydro, are selling clean energy products and services directly to India’s rural ’Base of the Pyramid’ (BoP) population. This series introduces a new report that looks at this market in depth.

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