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Pathways from Poverty: A Multi-country Study

This project investigated the differences certain policies and interventions had on households on the pathway from poverty.

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Microfinance in Theory and Practice: Field Experiments

This project examined the responsiveness of borrowing and repayment to interest rates, the impacts consumer credit access had on borrowers, and the impacts access to credit […]

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THE STRUCTURE AND PERFORMANCE OF RURAL FINANCIAL MARKETS AND THE WELFARE OF THE RURAL POOR: A Comparative Study in Peru and Mexico

This project investigated how post-liberalization financial markets in Peru and Mexico promoted efficient resource use and asset accumulation by the rural poor.

  • Start Date: 2004
  • End Date: 2005/08/01
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Credit Reporting Bureaus and the Deepening of Financial Services for the Rural Poor in Latin America

This project assessed how credit reporting systems could improve smallholder farmers’ access to formal loans in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Peru.

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The Long- Run Effects of Access to Financial Services on Asset Accumulation, Economic Mobility, and the Evolution of Wellbeing: Revisiting Agricultural Commercialization in Bukidnon, 1984-2003

This project examined how access to rural financial services impacted capital accumulation, economic mobility, and long-term well-being of agricultural households relying on either commercialized or food […]

  • Start Date: 2003
  • End Date: 2004
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Reducing Poverty in Post-Reform Economies

This project investigated how post-liberalization financial markets in Peru and Mexico promoted efficient resource use and asset accumulation by the rural poor.

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Promoting Equitable Access to Water Resources

In response to the decentralization of water management and other land and water reforms in Malawi this research aimed to study how these reforms affected disadvantaged […]

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Building Assets for Sustainable Recovery and Food Security

This project is initiating new field research, building on existing studies and databases, and extending the comparative work in areas of Ethiopia, Kenya, and Honduras. The […]

  • Start Date: 2001/10/01
  • End Date: 2006/09/01
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Rural Markets, Natural Capital, and Dynamic Poverty Traps in East Africa

This project focused on poverty traps and their agroecological consequences and origins to address global constraints that trap poor households in cycles of poverty and vulnerability […]

  • Start Date: 2001/10/01
  • End Date: 2004/09/01
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Impact of Joint Titling on Gender Equity

Addressing the systematic differences between men’s and women’s land tenure rights and how these differences contributes to structural inequality and poverty for women, this project sought […]

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