BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)

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Weather Insurance, Price Information and Hedging: Financial Initiatives to Help the Poor Manage Agricultural Risk

This project developed two complimentary initiatives to weaken poor farmer households’ susceptibility to output and price risk in an effort to increase their asset accumulation and […]

  • Start Date: 2007/10/01
  • End Date: 2011/09/01
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Biometric and Financial Innovations in Rural Malawi: A Field Experimental Approach

This project aimed to demonstrate how biometric technology, specifically fingerprinting, can help improve the functioning of rural credit markets in Malawi. It tested whether a fingerprint-based […]

  • Start Date: 2007/07/01
  • End Date: 2008/12/01
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Access to Modernizing Value Chains by Small Farmers in Indonesia and Nicaragua

This project investigated how transformations in the agrifood industry have affected small farmers’ access to markets and assets in Nicaragua and Indonesia. This project focused on […]

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Pathways for Ensuring Access to Assets: Land tenure reform and beyond

This project assessed the social, economic, and institutional constraints limiting women’s access to and control of assets in Uganda and Liberia. Researchers provided recommendations on policies […]

  • Start Date: 2007/04/01
  • End Date: 2011/03/01
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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, […]

  • Start Date: 2007
  • End Date: 2012
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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 […]

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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
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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 […]

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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
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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 […]

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