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The BASIS Assets and Market Access CRSP has selected new long-term research projects
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BASIS is co-sponsoring an upcoming event on Designing Pro-Poor Rewards for Ecosystem Services programs
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BASIS Assets and Market Access CRSP has a new pilot project on the use of biometrics for microfinance in Malawi
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"Rural Prosperity through Innovative Research"
Pathways from rural poverty are not the same for all people, in all places.
For some, it requires relaxation of the financial market constraints
that prevent them from accessing the assets and complementary resources needed
to realize returns to labor and skills. For
others, it requires a labor-intensive pattern of agricultural growth that raises
wages for unskilled workers. But whatever the pathway, elimination of chronic
poverty requires mechanisms to manage the risk, vulnerability and other constraints
that undercut the nutritional, health and educational investments needed to
bolster the human capital of the next generation and break the inequitable
intergenerational transmission of poverty.
BASIS is dedicated to the kind of creative research that can change the terms
of the debate and significantly impact development policy and programming.
BASIS focuses on:
- The dynamics of rural and agricultural economies, and the constraints that
make it difficult for some households to participate effectively in growth
and get ahead economically over time;
- Emerging ideas about interventions and programs that can be expected to
relax those constraints;
- Tools for designing, testing and implementing interventions such that their
impact can be credibly evaluated and their full development impact realized;
and,
- Effective outreach and communication of research results to the development
policy and programming community.
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