As development and humanitarian agencies increasingly advance the objective of ‘building resilience’, three resilience measurement methods have come into especially widespread use: the Resilience Indicators for Measurement and Analysis approach de
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Land market distortions and aggregate agricultural productivity: Evidence from Guatemala
A theoretical framework to model the optimal size distribution of farms and assess to what extent market imperfections can explain non-optimal land allocation and output inefficiency. (Guatemala)
Cheap talk and coordination in the lab and in the field: Collective commercialization in Senegal
In Senegal, revealing farmers’ intentions improves collective commercialization, & learning in the lab transfers to day-to-day behaviors.
Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods
Lengthy surveys where designated respondents provide information about their household members can lead to both losses & biases as fatigue grows during interviews.
Information, technology, and market rewards: Incentivizing aflatoxin control in Ghana
The quality of agricultural products can affect both farm incomes and the healthfulness of farm families’ diets.
Provision of low-cost credit to the poor through self-help groups (SHGs) has been embraced as a key poverty-reduction strategy in developing countries, but evidence on the impact of this approach is thin.
A substantial literature has analyzed the challenges around weather index insurance, yet an important design issue has been generally overlooked.
Does a ban on informal health providers save lives?
Informal health providers ranging from drug vendors to traditional healers account for a large fraction of health care provision in developing countries.
Don’t tell on me
Growing their own
Measuring risk attitudes among Mozambican farmers
Offering rainfall insurance to informal insurance groups
How accurate are recall data?
Breaking the norm
...Utilizing evidence from recent econometric studies on sources of growth, the model also accounts explicitly for cross-border technological spillovers.
Spatial integration, transport costs, and the response of local prices to policy changes in Ghana
This paper investigates the respective roles of spatial integration and transport costs in explaining price changes in Ghana.
The static effects on agricultural crop production and income arising from the correction of three common policy biases in developing countries - the underpricing of food, agricultural export taxation, and currency overvaluation - are examined ana