Market access and finance

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.

This paper instead analyzes two index-based insurance schemes, one based on a weather index, and a second based on measured average yields.