This collaborative project will explore how risk-reducing technology, motivated and dedicated savings and indexed pre-approved lines of credit can be combined to provide protection against risk to reduce poverty.
This project measures the impact of a listing in a paper telephone directory on outcomes for enterprises that support the agricultural sector in rural Tanzania.
This project seeks to improve access for the poor by identifying mechanisms that create incomplete access, which innovations are effective at expanding access, and finally in looking at the welfare implications of expanded financial services.
AMA CRSP researchers have helped develop the methodology for the impact evaluation, including survey design, and have been actively involved in sampling and oversight of data collection.
The research will focus on developing simple, flexible and inclusive index insurance products, and learning how to link them with savings or credit to reduce the impact of basis risk inherent in any index product.
This research helped to design new institutional mechanisms that favor the inclusion of smallholders and link them to dynamic markets through efficient contract farming arrangements.
This research will help to inform policies and put emphasis on extending access to all, in order to make financial liberalization a strategy that can help all levels of society.
This project will examine the asset-related determinant and the impacts of the participation of small farmers and farmer organizations in modern versus traditional market channels in Indonesia and Nicaragua.
This project analyzes three institutional innovations with potential of increasing the competitiveness of the smallholder sector: fair trade, the linking of insurance to credit, and the use of credit bureaus in microfinance lending.