CRSP BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA) : CRSPs

Enhancing Smallholder Competitiveness in the Face of Globalization

Coming soon

Date of Publication: 1/21/2007
Author(s): Alain de Janvry; Craig McIntosh; Elisabeth Sadoulet; Tomas Rosada
Type of Document: Project Document

Region: Global
Topic: Markets

CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)

Cash Transfers, Risk Management and Asset Accumulation: Policy evaluation for rural poverty reduction in Nicaragua

This project aimed to look at the long-term impact of a cash transfer pilot program, and whether it would increase the asset base and/or facilitate income […]

Start Date: 2007
End Date: 2011
Project Code: Not Available
Lead University: Johns Hopkins University

Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
Topic: Policy

CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)

Database: Project

Understanding and Improving Financial Access for the Poor

This project sought to improve access for the poor by identifying which mechanisms create incomplete access and which innovations are effective at expanding access. Lastly, this […]

Start Date: 2007
End Date: 2012
Project Code: Not Available
Lead University: Yale University

Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Topic: Markets

CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)

Database: Project

Quantitative Impact Evaluation: MCC-MCA Nicaragua Compact

The BASIS AMA CRSP assisted with an impact evaluation of the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s project with MCA-Nicaragua which promotes economic growth through property regularization, infrastructure improvement […]

Start Date: 2007
End Date: 2011
Project Code: Not Available
Lead University: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
Topic: Policy

CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)

Database: Project

Natural Capital and Poverty Reduction

This project studied how natural capital functioned as a form of insurance for poor households facing income variability and shocks and whether income from natural resources […]

Start Date: 2007
End Date: 2012
Project Code: Not Available
Lead University: Purdue University

Region: Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
Topic: Gender, Natural Resource Management

CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)

Database: Project

Micro Health Insurance in Rural Cambodia: An evaluation of the impact on the stabilization of incomes and enhancement of agricultural productivity and asset accumulation

This project evaluated the GRET/SKY micro-health insurance program in Cambodia, focusing on how micro-health insurance reduces the rural poor’s susceptibility to loss of income and productive […]

Start Date: 2007/00/01
End Date: 2012/00/01
Project Code: Not Available
Lead University: University of California - Berkeley

Region: Asia
Topic: Markets

CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)

Database: Project

Understanding the Impact of Idiosyncratic Shocks on Farm Productivity and Household Assets in Ethiopia, Ghana and Bangladesh

New evidence that idiosyncratic risk dominates covariate risk in rural Africa and Asia indicates the potential contribution of improved local risk management to household asset accumulation, […]