Biometric and Financial Innovations in Rural Malawi: A Field Experimental Approach

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• Date of Publication: 8/21/2007
• Author(s): Xavier Gine; Dean Yang
• Type of Document: Project Document

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Innovation, Markets

Kefelaw, Fikru

• Start Date: 2007/08/01
• End Date: 2009/08/31
• University: Norwegian University of Life Sciences
• Degree: MS

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Markets

Khundi, Fydess

• Start Date: 2007/08/01
• End Date: 2009/05/31
• University: Norwegian University of Life Sciences
• Degree: MS

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Markets

Legesse, Bethelhem

• Start Date: 2007/08/01
• End Date: 2009/05/31
• University: Norwegian University of Life Sciences
• Degree: MS

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Markets

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
• Project Code: Not Available
• Lead University: University of Michigan

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Markets

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
• Project Code: Not Available
• Lead University: Yale University

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Gender, Policy

Understanding the impact of idiosyncratic shocks on farm productivity and household asset building and protection in Ghana, Ethiopia and Bangladesh: A Proposal to the USAID AMA CRSP

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• Date of Publication: 3/1/2007
• Author(s): Christopher B. Barrett; Agnes Quisumbing; Jacqueline Vanderpuye-Orgle
• Type of Document: Project Document

• Region: Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Productivity

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

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
• Project Code: Not Available
• Lead University: Cornell University

• Region: Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
• Topic: Food Security, Productivity

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