How do borrowers respond to improvements in a lender’s ability to punish defaulters? This reports the results of a randomized field experiment in rural Malawi that examines the impact of fingerprinting borrowers in a context where a unique identification system is absent.

This study uses a randomized experiment to investigate 1) the role of crop-price risk in reducing demand for credit among farmers and 2) how risk mitigation changes farmers’ investment decisions.

We use unique data on negotiated prices from Nicaraguan farm cooperatives supplying supermarkets to study the impact of supply agreements on producers’ mean output prices and price stability.

This presentation was presented by Rebecca Surender from Oxford University describing the Social Grant System in South Africa.

This presentation was presented by CRS on February 26, 2009 describing how to achieve improved food and financial security within 5 years in Ethiopia.

This presentation was presented by Shanta Devarajan from The World Bank discussing the poverty gap between Africa's economic growth and poor regions.

This presentation was presented Ruth Campbell from ACDI VOCA describing how the value chain approach can sustain economic growth for those in poverty.

This presentation was presented by Samuel Kabore from the Chronic Poverty Research Center describing economic growth redistribution to benefit the chronically poor in Burkina Faso.

This presentation was presented on February 26, 2009 at Washington, DC describing the idea behind matching financial with technological innovations to enable farmers to facilitate credit to buy fertilizer and encourage farmers to save for their own fertilizer purchases.