Improved Agricultural Technology and Tropical Forest Pressure: The Case of Malawi’s Starter Pack Scheme
Abstract: The impact of Malawi’s Starter Pack Scheme (SPS), a free-inputs program policy aimed at promoting agricultural intensification is studied. Household survey data from southern Malawi […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): M. Fisher; G. Shively
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Publication
Has Forest Co-management in Malawi Benefited the Poor?
Coming soon
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): A. Angelsen; C.B.L. Jumbe
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Publication
Forest Dependence and Participation in CPR Management: Empirical Evidence from Forest Co-management in Malawi
Abstract: The authors develop an endogenous sample selection model to investigate how forest dependence influences a household’s decision to participate in forest co-management program. Using data […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): A. Angelsen; C. Jumbe
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Publication
Education’s Effect on Poverty: The Role of Migration
Coming soon
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): B. Weber; A. Marre; M. Fisher; R. Gibbs; J. Comartie
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Publication
National Capital and Poverty Reduction: A Proposal to the AMA BASIS CRSP
Coming soon
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): Arild Angelsen; Monica Fisher; Charles Jumbe; Gerald Shively; Dick Sserunkuuma
- Type of Document: Project Document
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Publication
Weather Insurance: Managing Risk through an Innovative Retail Derivative
Abstract: This paper presents the results of a series of randomized
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): Shawn Cole; Jeremy Tobacman; Petia Topalova
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Global
- Topic: Innovation
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Publication
Underwriting Area-Based Yield Insurance to Crowd-In Credit Supply and Demand
Abstract: Recent theoretical and empirical evidence suggests that risk (especially covariant risk that is correlated across producers) may discourage both the supply of agricultural credit and […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): Michael R. Carter; Francisco Galarza; Stephen Boucher
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Publication
Fractal Poverty Traps
Abstract: This paper offers an informal theory of a special sort of poverty trap, one in which multiple dynamic equilibria exist simultaneously at multiple (micro, meso […]
- Date of Publication: January 2006
- Author(s): Christopher B. Barrett; Brent M. Swallow
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Publication
