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

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)

In Senegal, revealing farmers’ intentions improves collective commercialization, & learning in the lab transfers to day-to-day behaviors.

Lengthy surveys where designated respondents provide information about their household members can lead to both losses & biases as fatigue grows during interviews.

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.

Informal health providers ranging from drug vendors to traditional healers account for a large fraction of health care provision in developing countries.

...Utilizing evidence from recent econometric studies on sources of growth, the model also accounts explicitly for cross-border technological spillovers.

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