This presentation took place at George Washington University, United States on November 6, 2014 describing how poor market integration in African markets result in barriers to building market linkages.
This presentation took place at George Washington University, United States on November 6, 2014 describing how behavioral lab experiments have uncovered a wealth of evidence contradictory to standard economic workhorse theories.
This presentation took place at George Washington University, United States on November 6, 2014 describing how households and communities without assets get stuck in poverty traps in Nepal.
This presentation took place at George Washington University, United States on November 6, 2014 describing the research of essential heterogeneity measurements and constraining intervention in Mexico.
This presentation took place at George Washington University, United States on November 6, 2014 describing how crop yield index insurance in western Kenya.
This presentation took place at George Washington University, United States on November 6, 2014 describing the benefits of group index-insurance include averaging basis risk across spatially disbursed groups and reducing individual-level basis risks.
This presentation took place at George Washington University, United States on November 6, 2014 describing the importance of physical and informational infrastructure absence for Tanzanian small-scale fisheries.
This presentation took place at George Washington University, United States on November 6, 2014 describing how information is costly and can lead to inefficient market outcomes.
This paper presents a novel way to understand the low uptake of index insurances using the concept of discontinuity of preferences through a field experiment with cotton farmers in Burkina Faso.