A. Thillai Rajan

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify various factors leading to power sector reform in developing countries, including contextual factors, facilitating factors, and trigger factors, which act as facilitators for initiating reform.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of private equity investments in infrastructure finance was analyzed and it was found that projects with PE investment were larger when compared to projects that did not have PE investment, indicating that PE investment helped in successfully financing larger projects.

TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis synthesises the evidence on the effectiveness of bottom-up approaches that is characterized by the strong involvement of alternate service providers such as NGO's and CBO's in improving access to electricity, water supply, and sanitation services for the urban poor.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provided a perspective of social venture investments in India based on an analysis of 523 deals in 212 companies, which indicated that venture funding for social enterprises had several distinctive characteristics such as smaller investment sizes, early stage investing, and longer investment duration, indicating the need for more active contributions and value addition from the investors.

TL;DR: In this paper, a panel that comprised VCs, an entrepreneur and an academic debated the interrelationships between VC funding and portfolio firm performance and found that the value addition effect dominates the selection effect in accounting for the superior performance of VC funded companies.