Innovation for Poverty Action (IPA) is dedicated to promoting successful and effective solutions to worldwide poverty. IPA bridges the gap between researchers and decision-makers to help design, asses, finalize solutions and their application, and to ensure the evidence created is used to improve the lives of the world’s poor. IPA creates evidence that is high quality and can be turned into better programs and policies for the poor.
Publications
Journal Article
The countervailing effects of competition on public goods provision: When bargaining inefficiencies lead to bad outcomes
Working Paper
The countervailing effects of competition on public goods provision: When bargaining inefficiencies lead to bad outcomes
Brief
Mind the gender gap in farmers’ preferences for weather-index insurance
Events
Building Resilience through Financial Inclusion: A Review of Existing Evidence and Knowledge Gaps
In low-income countries, disasters induced by climate change are giving rise to new risks, shocks, and stresses among already vulnerable households. Well-designed financial products and services could play a role in increasing low-income families’ resilience by helping them prepare for the uncertain: financial inclusion can facilitate efforts to reduce risks, increase investments, and bounce back […]