Projects

• Building Assets for Sustainable Recovery and Food Security
• Constraints to Growth in Russian Agriculture
• Deepening of Financial Services through Credit-Reporting Bureaus
• Improving Household Well-Being by Improving Access to Credit
• Innovating Institutions to Help Land Reform Beneficiaries
• Microfinance in Theory and Practice: Field Experiments
• Pathways from Poverty: A Multi-Country Study
• Property Rights, Environmental Services and Poverty in Indonesia
• Promoting Equitable Access to Water Resources
• Reducing Poverty in Post-Reform Economies
• Regional Diversity in Pathways Out of Rural Poverty in Brazil
• Rural Markets, Natural Capital, and Dynamic Poverty Traps in East Africa

BASIS Research Objectives

The BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP) seeks to improve rural prosperity by making markets work for all. As presented in the chart that outlines the BASIS contribution to USAID, USAID Goal #1 (pdf file, 14KB, Adobe Acrobat required), the BASIS CRSP contributes to USAID development goals by targeting global constraints that stand in the way of broadly based economic growth.

• Ineffective Agricultural Resource Use in Post-Reform Economies
• Unsustainable Use of Degradable Resources
• Poverty and Food Insecurity Traps

BASIS CRSP endeavors to lessen the impacts of these global constraints with carefully selected projects designed not merely to understand the nature of the constraints but also to deliver innovative and creative policy solutions that will remove, relax, or sidestep them. Each project focuses on a regional context where the constraints have particular salience, yet also seeks lessons and innovations that will inform efforts to over come constraints in other regions of the world.

BASIS CRSP delivers findings and recommendations that meet the needs of USAID, regional policy makers, host country nationals, and the larger development community. Through its outreach, research outputs, Policy Briefs, and Best Practice Policy Conferences, BASIS CRSP communicates effective methods for solving problems and achieving sustainable and equitable growth.