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Scale and sustainability: The impact of a women’s self-help group program on household economic well-being in India
Microfinance groups are a prominent source of small-scale rural credit in many developing countries.
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Community health educators and maternal health: Experimental evidence from northern Nigeria
The slow pace of improvement in service delivery and health outcomes for pregnant women and newborns in developing countries has been a major concern for policy makers in recent decades.
To gain a better understanding of intrahousehold bargaining processes, surveys increasingly collect data from co-heads individually, especially on decision-making, asset ownership and labour contributions.
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Expanding social protection coverage with humanitarian aid: Lessons on targeting and transfer values from Ethiopia
While social protection programmes have multiplied over the last two decades across sub-Saharan Africa, these coexist alongside humanitarian assistance in many places, calling for better integration of assistance delivered through the two channels.
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Does agricultural commercialisation increase asset and livestock accumulation on smallholder farms in Ethiopia?
The transition of farmers from subsistence to market-oriented agriculture is meant to reduce hunger, increase wellbeing and accelerate rural economic progress.
To understand how Myanmar’s rice value chain has been affected by the COVID-19 crisis, a series of telephone interviews is being conducted with more than 400 rice millers from Ayeyarwady, Bago, and Yangon.
This note assesses the impacts of COVID-19 on the processing sector of Myanmar’s agri-food system.
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Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Agricultural equipment retailers - January 2021 survey round
Agricultural equipment retailers (ER) in Myanmar were originally interviewed by telephone in May, June, July, and November 2020 to determine how their businesses were being affected by COVID-19 related restrictions.
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Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Rice millers – November 2020 survey round
To understand how Myanmar’s rice value chain has been affected by the COVID-19 crisis, a series of phone interviews is being conducted with rice millers from Ayeyarwady, Bago, and Yangon.
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Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Mechanization service providers - December 2020 survey round
Mechanization service providers (MSP) in Myanmar were originally interviewed by telephone in May, June, July, and November 2020, covering mostly combine-harvester SPs (CHSP) and tractor SPs (TSP), to determine how their businesses were being affec
What drives tax compliance among informal workers, and how does compliance affect their policy preferences? Informal workers in developing countries encounter multiple taxes levied by government authorities and non-state actors.
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Landscapes of opportunity: Patterns of young people’s engagement with the rural economy in sub-Saharan Africa
While much has been said in recent years about the importance of engaging rural youth in sub-Saharan Africa’s development, the factual data about how African youth currently engage in rural economies remain sparse.