Publications

• Publications by Project
• All Publications

Publications by Project

• 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
• Promoting Equitable Access to Water Resources
• Reducing Poverty in Post-Reform Economies
• Rural Markets, Natural Capital, and Dynamic Poverty Traps in East Africa
• Regional Diversity in Pathways out of Rural Poverty in Brazil
• Property Rights, Environmental Services and Poverty in Indonesia
• Pathways from Poverty: A Multi-Country Study
• Microfinance in Theory and Practice: Field Experiments

All Publications

• BASIS Briefs
• BASIS Research
• Other Publications
• Trip Reports

For earlier publications, go to the BASIS 1996-2001 website.

BASIS Briefs

• BASIS Brief No. 48
  Farmland Redistribution in KwaZulu-Natal, 1997-2003, by M.C, Lyne and S.R.D. Ferrer. June 2006. 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 58K]
• BASIS Brief No. 47
  Teaching Entrepreneurship: Experiments to Improve Microfinance, by Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman, with Martin Valdivia. June 2006. 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 44K]
• BASIS Brief No. 46
  Can Insurance Unlock Agricultural Credit and Promote Economic Growth? by Carolina Trivelli, Michael Carter, Francisco Galarza, Alvaro Tarazona, and Johanna Yancari. May 2006. 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 52K]
• BASIS Brief No. 45
  Better Lending and Better Clients: Credit Bureau Impact on Microfinance, by Craig McIntosh, Elisabeth Sadoulet, and Alain de Janvry. May 2006. 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 73K]
• BASIS Brief No. 44
  Weighing Risks: Short and Long Term Impacts of Credit Constraints, by Steve Boucher and Agnes Quisumbing. May 2006. 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 47K]
• BASIS Brief No. 43
  Are Ethiopia's Farmers Dependent on Food Aid?, by Peter D. Little. February 2006. 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 73K]
• BASIS Brief No. 42
  Promoting Strong Land Markets in Transition Economies, by Tibor Ferenczi. November 2005. 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 211K]
• BASIS Brief No. 41
  Rural Labor Markets in Transition: Differences in Past Trends, Current Constraints, and Future Policies, by Karen Macours. November 2005. 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 214K]
• BASIS Brief No. 40
  Expanding the Market: Financial Institutions and Agricultural Lending, by Jacob Yaron. November 2005. 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 218K]
• BASIS Brief No. 39
  The Purchased Agricultural Input Market in Russia, by Eugenia Serova and Olga Shick. November 2005. 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 216K]
• BASIS Brief No. 38
  Farms and the Financial Market: Russian Farm Performance, Access to Credit and Government Support, by David Epshtein, Aleksandr Subbotin, and Olga Yastrebovai. November 2005. 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 215K]
• BASIS Brief No. 37
  Too Many Workers? Changes in Agricultural Employment in Russia, by Vladimir Bogdanovskii. November 2005. 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 218K]
• BASIS Brief No. 36
  Living with Constraints: Russia's Agricultural Land Market, by Natalya Shagaida. November 2005. 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 220K]
• BASIS Brief No. 35
  Russia's New Agricultural Operators: Emergence, Evolution, and Impact, by Dmitri Rylko and Robert Jolly. October 2005. 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 220K]
• BASIS Brief No. 34
  Adapting to a Market Economy: Changes in Russia's Farm Structure, by Vasilii Uzun. October 2005. 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 267K]
• BASIS Brief No. 33
  Migrant Remittances and the Financial Market in Moldova, by Cerstin Sander, Doina Nistor, Andrei Bat, Viorica Petrov, Victoria Seymour. October 2005. 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 355K]
• BASIS Brief No. 32
  Displaced Distortions: Financial Market Failures and Seemingly Inefficient Resource Allocation, by Christopher B. Barrett. August 2005, 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 294K]
• BASIS Brief No. 31
  Factor Markets in Russian Agriculture: Current Conditions and Policy Options, by Eugenia Serova and Bruce Gardner. July 2005. 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 232K]
• BASIS Brief No. 30
  Pathways from Poverty: Evaluating Long-term Strategies to Reduce Poverty, by John Hoddinott, Agnes Quisumbing, Alain de Janvry, and Tassew Woldehanna. May 2005. 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 164K]
• BASIS Brief No. 29
  Property Rights, Environmental Services and Poverty in Indonesia, by John Kerr, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, John Pender, Suyanto, Brent Swallow, and Meine van Noordwijk. May 2005. 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 237K]
• BASIS Brief No. 28
  The Long-term Impacts of Short-term Shocks: Poverty Traps and Environmental Disasters in Ethiopia and Honduras, by Michael R. Carter, Peter D. Little, Tewodaj Mogues, and Workneh Negatu. May 2005. 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 253K]
• BASIS Brief No. 27
  Innovative Development: BASIS CRSP Findings and Policy Recommendations, by BASIS CRSP. November 2004, 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 304K]
• BASIS Brief No. 26
  Persistent Poverty in Upper East Ghana, by Ann Whitehead. November 2004, 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 226K]
• BASIS Brief No. 25
  Sense in Sociability? Social Exclusion and Persistent Poverty in South Africa, by Michelle Adato, Michael Carter, and Julian May , October 2004, 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 242K]
• BASIS Brief No. 24
  Poverty Dynamics in Rural Kenya and Madagascar, by Christopher B. Barrett, Paswel Phiri Marenya, John McPeak, Bart Minten, Festus Murithi, Willis Oluoch-Kosura, Frank Place, Jean Claude Randrianarisoa, Jhon Rasambainarivo and Justine Wangila, October 2004, 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 241K]
• BASIS Brief No. 23
  The Differential Effects on Rural Income and Poverty during a Decade of Radical Change in Malawi, 1986-97, by Pauline E. Peters, October 2004, 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 227K]
• BASIS Brief No. 22
  Shocks and their Consequences across and within Households in Rural Zimbabwe, by John Hoddinot, October 2004, 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 250K]
• BASIS Brief No. 21
  “Churning” on the Margins: How the Poor Respond to Drought in South Wollo, Ethiopia, by Peter D. Little, M. Priscilla Stone, Tewodaj Mogues, A. Peter Castro and Workneh Negatu, October 2004, 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 236K]
• BASIS Brief No. 20
  Making Co-ownership Work: Helping Land Reform Beneficiaries Access Land and Financial Resources through Equity Sharing in South Africa, by Mike Lyne and Michael Roth. May 2004, 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 213K]
• BASIS Brief No. 19
  From Research to Policy: The Impact of BASIS CRSP Findings, by Members of BASIS CRSP. April 2004, 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 202K]
• BASIS Brief No. 18
  Meeting the Needs of the Rural Poor through Post-reform Financial Markets, by Stephen R. Boucher, J. Edward Taylor, Carolina Trivelli Avila, Antonio Yunez Naude and Javier Escobal D'Angelo. November 2003, 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 268K]
• BASIS Brief No. 17
  Looking for Long-Term Wellbeing: Access to Credit and the Impact on Rural Households, by Agnes R. Quisumbing and Linda Montillo-Burton. November 2003, 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 182K]
• BASIS Brief No. 16
  Up the Lending Ladder: Extending Financial Services for the Rural Poor through Credit-Reporting Bureaus, by Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Craig McIntosh, Bruce Wydick, and Martin Valdivia; in cooperation with Alvaro Trigueros, Gustavo Gordillo, and Dean Karlan. April 2003, 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 50K]
• BASIS Brief No. 15
  The Unfinished Business of Liberalization: Making Markets Work for All, by Steve Boucher, Brad Barham, and Michael R. Carter. April 2003, 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 53K]
• BASIS Brief No. 14
  Education, Nonfarm Income, and Farm Investment in Land-scarce Western Kenya, by Paswel Phiri Marenya, Willis Oluoch-Kosura, Frank Place, and Christopher B. Barrett. February 2003, 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 56K]
• BASIS Brief No. 13
  The BASIS CRSP Program: An Overview, by Members of BASIS CRSP. October 2002, 8 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 1.1M]
• BASIS Brief No. 12
  Gender and Broadening Access to Land and Water in Southern Africa, by Pauline E. Peters and Anne E. Ferguson, with input from Mark Darroch, Bill Derman, Ben Fuller, Francis Gonese, Michael Lyne, Wapu Mulwafu, Joel das Neves, Ragan Petrie, and Lovemore Rugube. August 2002, 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 186K]
• BASIS Brief No. 11
  Land Redistribution in Namibia and Zimbabwe, by Ben Fuller, George Eiseb, Lovemore Rugube, and Walter Chambati.. August 2002, 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 232K]
• BASIS Brief No. 10
  Helping Disadvantaged South Africans Access the Land Market: Past Performance and Future Policy, by Mark Darroch and Mike Lyne. March 2002, 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 141K]
• BASIS Brief No. 9
  Promoting Equitable Access to Water Resources, by Bill Derman, Anne Ferguson, and Pauline Peters. February 2002, 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 328K]
• BASIS Brief No. 8
  Innovating Institutions to Help Land Reform Beneficiaries, by Mike Lyne and Michael Roth, with assistance from Malcolm Childress and Roman Mogilevsky. February 2002, 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 173K]
• BASIS Brief No. 7
  Constraints to Growth in Russian Agriculture, by Bruce Gardner and Eugenia Serova. January 2002, 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 206K]
• BASIS Brief No. 6
  Poverty Traps and Resource Degradation, by Christopher B. Barrett, Lawrence E. Blume, John G. McPeak, Bart Minten, Festus Murithi, Bernard N. Okumu, Alice Pell, Frank Place Jean Claude Randrianarisoa, and Jhon Rasambainarivo. January 2002, 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 242K]
• BASIS Brief No. 6-F
  Le piège de la pauvreté et la dégradation des ressources, par Christopher B. Barrett, Lawrence E. Blume, John G. McPeak, Bart Minten, Festus Murithi, Bernard N. Okumu, Alice Pell, Frank Place Jean Claude Randrianarisoa, et Jhon Rasambainarivo. Octobre 2002, 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 196K]
• BASIS Brief No. 5
  Building Assets for Sustainable Recovery and Food Security, by Peter D. Little, with assistance from Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed, Michael Carter, Michael Roth, and Workneh Negatu. January 2002, 4 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 195K]

For earlier BASIS Briefs, go to the BASIS 1996-2001 website.

BASIS Research

• BASIS CRSP Ninth Annual Report: Activities, Workplans and Outreach, October 2005, 87 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 1.27M]
• BASIS CRSP Eighth Annual Report: Activities, Workplans and Outreach, October 2004, 120 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 3.15M]
• BASIS CRSP Seventh Annual Report: Activities, Workplans and Outreach, October 2003, 128 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 12.4M]
• BASIS CRSP Sixth Annual Report: Activities, Workplans and Outreach, October 2002, 162 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 11.6M]
• BASIS CRSP Fifth Annual Report: Activities 2000-2001 and Workplan 2001-2002, October 2001, 133 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 2.26M]

For earlier titles in the BASIS Research series, go to the BASIS 1996-2001 website.

Other Publications and Outputs

• Locational Determinants of Rural Non-Agricultural Employment: Evidence from Brazil. Erik Jonasson and Steven M. Helfand. January 2008, 33 pages. [PDF, 827K]
• Moving Forward, Looking Back: The Impact of Migrants’ Remittances on Assets, Consumption, and Credit Constraints in Sending Communities in the Rural Philippines, by Agnes R. Quisumbing and Scott McNiven. November 2006, 40 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 271K]
• Many Paths to the Same Moon? Moving out of Poverty in Bukidnon, Philippines, by Chona Echavez, Erlinda Montillo-Burton, Scott McNiven, and Agnes R. Quisumbing. November 2006, 67 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 317K]
• Property Rights and Environmental Services in Lampung Province, Indonesia, by John Kerr, John Pender, and Suyanto. Presented at the International Association for the Study of Common Property Conference, Ubud, Indonesia 19-23 June 2006. 32 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 265K]
• Farmland Transfers in KwaZulu-Natal, 1997-2003: A Focus on Land Redistribution Including Restitution, by MC Lyne and SRD Ferrer, April 2006. 16 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 84K]
• Vulnerability and Shocks in 15 Ethiopian Villages, 1999-2004, by Stefan Dercon, John Hoddinott, and Tassew Woldehanna. April 2005. 35 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 185K]
• How Accurate are Reports of Credit Constraints? Reconciling Theory with Respondents' Claims in Bukidnon, Philippines, by Daniel O. Gilligan, Sarah Harrower and Agnes R. Quisumbing. July 2005, 58 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 581K]
• Groups, Networks and Social Capital in Rural Philippine Communities, by Marie Godquin and Agnes R. Quisumbing. October 2005, 41 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat 1126K]
• Migration and the Rural-Urban Continuum: Evidence from the Rural Philippines, by Agnes R. Quisumbing and Scott McNiven. October 2005, 62 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat 569K]
• Migrant Remittances and the Financial Market in Moldova (full report), Cerstin Sander, Doina Nistor, Andrei Bat, Viorica Petrov, Victoria Seymour. February 2005. 83 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 950K]
• Shocks, Sensitivity and Resilience: Tracking the Economic Impacts of Environmental Disaster on Assets in Ethiopia and Honduras, by Michael R. Carter, Peter D. Little, Tewodaj Mogues, and Workneh Negatu. October 2004. 38 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 189K]
• Irrigation Reform on Malawi's Domasi and Linkangala Smallholder Irrigation Schemes: Exploring Land-Water Intersections, by A. E. Ferguson and W. O. Mulwafu. October 2004, 32 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 172K]
• Informal Irrigation in Lake Chilwa Basin: Stream-Bank and Wetland Gardens, by Pauline Peters. October 2004, 24 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 157K]
• Patterns of Access and Use in Wetlands: The Lake Chilwa Basin, by Daimon Kambewa. October 2004, 17 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 138K]
• Microfinance and Financial Institutions in Bukidnon, by Beethoven Morales. October 2004, 24 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 159K]
• Farmland Redistribution in KwaZulu-Natal, 1997-2003, by SRD Ferrer. December 2004, 16p.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 95K]
• Establishing Farm-based Equity-share Schemes in KwaZulu-Natal: Lessons from USAID’s BASIS Research Programme, conference proceedings edited by Michael Lyne and Michael Roth, November 2004, 70 p.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 360K]
• Criteria to Monitor the Poverty Alleviation, Empowerment and Institutional Performance of Equity-share Schemes in South African Agriculture, by B.C. Gray, M.C. Lyne, and S.R.D. Ferrer. (Revised) December 2004, 26 p.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 202K]
• Are Rural Women Disadvantaged in Asset Ownership and Business Relations in the Kyrgyz Republic? by Renée Giovarelli. September 2004, 19 p.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 325K]
• Reasons for Food Insecurity of Farm Households in South Wollo, Ethiopia: Explanations at Grassroots, by Workneh Negatu. July 2004, 22 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 243K bytes]
• Possible Causes of Poverty within a Group of Land Reform Beneficiaries in the Midlands of KwaZulu-Natal: Analysis and Policy Recommendations, by L.H. Shinns and M.C. Lyne. (Revised) December 2004, 13 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 91K]
• Measuring the Performance of Equity-share Schemes in South Africa: A Focus on Financial Criteria, by B.C. Gray, M.C. Lyne and S.R.D. Ferrer. June 2004, 18 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 201K]
• A Linear Discriminant Analysis of Market Modes of Land Redistribution in Kwazulu-Natal from 1997-2002, by A. Semalulu, M. Lyne and S. Ferrer. June 2004, 14 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 212K]
• Land Redistribution in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: Five Census Surveys of Farmland Transactions, 1997-2001, by M.C. Lyne and MAG Darroch. April 2004, 26 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 324K]
• Perceptions of Farmworker Equity-share Schemes in South Africa, by S.L. Knight and M.C. Lyne. April 2004, 20 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 265K]
• Decentralization, Participation and Access to Water Resources in Malawi, by A. E. Ferguson and W. O. Mulwafu. April 2004, 36 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 335K]
• Symptoms of Poverty within a Group of Land Reform Beneficiaries in the Midlands of KwaZulu-Natal: Analysis and Policy Recommendations, by L.H. Shinns and M.C. Lyne. May 2003 (revised March 2004), 15 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 265K]
• Land Redistribution in KwaZulu-Natal: An Analysis of Farmland Transactions from 1997 until 2002, by S.R.D. Ferrer and A.K. Semalulu. March 2004, 20 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 250K]
• Small Businesses in Small Towns of the Eastern Amhara Region: Nature and Economic Performance. A Research Report, by Tegegne Gebre Egziabher and Mulat Demeke. January 2004, 59 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 1,428K]
• Credit Bureaus and the Rural Microfinance Sector: Peru, Guatemala and Bolivia, by Alain de Janvry et al. January 2004, 129 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 833K]
• Summary of Proceedings of the Workshop on BASIS/IDR Research Programme in the Eastern Amhara Region, Ethiopia, edited by Peter Little. January 2004, 86 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 926K]
• Symptoms of Poverty within a Group of Land Reform Beneficiaries in the Midlands of KwaZulu-Natal: Analysis and Policy Recommendations, by L.H. Shinns and M.C. Lyne. May 2003, 15 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 218K]
• Best Institutional Arrangements for Farmworker Equity-Share Schemes in South Africa, by Sharon Knight, Mike Lyne, and Michael Roth. February 2003, 22 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 307K]
• Land Redistribution in South Africa: Past Performance and Future Policy, by M.C. Lyne and M A.G. Darroch. February 2003, 25 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 330K]
• Retrospective Accounts of Responses to Drought by Female and Male Heads of Household in Bati and Dessie Zuria Woredas, South Wello and Oromiya Zones: Preliminary Field Report, 2002, by M. Priscilla Stone, based on fieldwork by M. Priscilla Stone and Mengistu Dessalegn Debela. January 2003, 24 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 291K]
• Post-drought Recovery Strategies among the Pastoral Households in the Horn of Africa: A Review, by Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed, Alemayehu Azeze, Mustafa Babiker, and Diress Tsegaye. Addis Ababa : OSSREA, 2002, 80 pages. (Development Research Report Series, no. 3) Posted with permission of OSSREA.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 663K]
• Literature Review: Strengthening the Theoretical Framework of BASIS Project "Institutional Innovations to Improve Equity Sharing under Privatization and Farm Restructuring," by Michael Roth and Mike Lyne. December 2002 (revised September 2003), 23 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 274K]
• Understanding Community Perceptions of Livelihoods, Assets, and Recovery Strategies: Preliminary Findings from Northern Kenya, by Kevin Smith and Peter D. Little. October 2002, 46 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 302K]
• The Geographic Dimensions of Food Security in South Wello: A Preliminary Analysis of Survey Data from 'Round 4 (November/December 2001)' Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS), by Michael E. Shin. September 2002, 13 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 1.38M]
• Social Capital, Assets and Responses to Drought: Preliminary Observations from Interviews, South Wello and Oromiya Zones, Amhara Region, Ethiopia, by A. Peter Castro, based on fieldwork by A. Peter Castro and Mengistu Dessalegn Debela. September 2002, 29 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 160K]
• The Influence of the State and Market on Local Level Management of Natural Resources: Case Studies of Forests, Irrigation and Pasture Sites in South Wello, Ethiopia, by Alula Pankhurst. June 2002, 119 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 803K]
• IDR-BASIS Workshop: Formation of Zone Research and Development Liaison Committee. March 2002, 5 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 25K]
• A Brief Status Report for the Dessie Mini-Workshop, by Workneh Negatu. March 2002, 10 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 44K]
• Decentralization, Participation and Access to Water Resources in Malawi, by A. E. Ferguson and W. O. Mulwafu. April 2004, 36 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 335K]
• Institutional Dimensions of Water Policy Reform in Southern Africa: Addressing Critical Water-Land Intersections in Broadening Access to Key Factors of Production, by Bill Derman, Francis T. Gonese, and Wapulumuka O. Mulwafu, with Geoffrey Chavula, Anne Furguson, and Pauline Peters. August 2001, 40 pages. (Project Proposal)
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 161K]
• Institutional Innovations to Improve the Viability of Equity Sharing Under Privatization and Farm Restructuring: Helping Land Reform Beneficiaries Gain Access to Land and Financial Resources in Central Asia and Southern Africa, by Michael J. Roth and Michael C. Lyne, with Malcolm Childress and Roman Mogilevsky. August 2001, 38 pages. (Project Proposal)
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 205K]
• Land, Labor, and Purchased Input Market Constraints on Economic Growth in Russian Agriculture: Analysis of Current Conditions and Policy Options, by Bruce Gardner and Eugenia Serova. August 2001, 51 pages. (Project Proposal)
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 280K]
• Rural Markets, Natural Capital and Dynamic Poverty Traps in East Africa, by Christopher B. Barret, with Jhon H. Rasambainarivo, Festus Murithi, and Frank M. Place. August 2001, 56 pages. (Project Proposal)
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 410K]
• BASIS Phase II Proposal
  Phase II Proposal (Revised), August 2001, 117 p.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 426K]
  Annexes to the Technical Proposal, August 2001, 137 p.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 1876K]
• Assets, Cycles, and Livelihoods: Addressing Food Insecurity in the Horn of Africa and Central America, by Peter Little, with Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed. July 2001, 17 pages. (Project Proposal)
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 113K]
• Report of a Research Trip to Explore Gender and Intrahousehold Dynamics: South Wello and Oromiya Zones of Amhara Region, Ethiopia, June 10-14, 2001, by Priscilla Stone. June 2001, 13 pages.
  [Adobe Acrobat PDF 198K]