World Bank Group
, Colin Andrews
, Aude de Montesquiou
, Inés Arévalo Sánchez
, Puja Vasudeva Dutta
, Boban Varghese Paul
, Sadna Samaranayake
, Janet Heisey
, Timothy Clay
, Sarang Chaudhary
Explore the impact of economic inclusion programs in lifting vulnerable households out of poverty and discover the role of partnerships in creating sustainable change.
Organizational Author: Mercy Corps under the Resilience Evaluation, Analysis and Learning Award
, Author: Gash, M.
This brief aims to better equip practitioners and financial service providers in considering risk and resilience in financial service program design, as well as considering which meso and macro-level mechanisms can...
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience
Increasing access to credit can spur the adoption of more productive technologies, but may require reducing risk for both smallholder farmer and lender. In a randomized controlled trial (RCT), we investigated how...
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience
Ecuador and several other Andean countries have prioritized the establishment and strengthening of agricultural insurance markets for smallholder farmers at risk of poverty. At the request of the Ecuadorian...
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience
Risk management and resilience are becoming a focus for how to support and empower agricultural households who are vulnerable to weather-related shocks. Index insurance has shown tremendous promise where conventional...
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience
An agricultural index insurance contract’s quality is hidden. On its surface, farmers considering a policy or national governments seeking to subsidize coverage have no way to know whether a product has the potential...
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience
In an experimental game in Tanzania, we tested how a small individual collateral requirement would affect the decision to borrow and individual effort under a group loan. A 20-percent collateral increased individual...
This report presents findings from the Partnership for Economic Inclusion's 2017 graduation landscaping survey and presents an overview, identifies trends, and provides analysis of implementations of graduation...
Poverty is often characterized not only by low and unstable income, but also by heavy debt burdens. We find that reducing barriers to saving through access to free savings accounts decreases participants' short-term...
Organizational Authors: TOPS
, The REAL Associate Award
, USAID Center for Resilience
The evidence, and the resulting discussion, presented during the 2017 Resilience Evidence Forum — hosted in Washington D.C. by the USAID Center for Resilience — are presented in the Resilience Evidence...
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