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.

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 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.