AMA CRSP Reports

BASIS Briefs

• BASIS Brief No. 2012-05.
  Insuring Health and Wealth? An Evaluation of Health Insurance in Cambodia, by David I. Levine and Rachel Polimeni. March 2012. 4 pages.
  
• BASIS Brief No. 2012-04.
  Understanding the Coffee Value Chain in Guatemala: A Case Study, by Rosangela Bando and Elisabeth Sadoulet. March 2012. 4 pages.
• BASIS Brief No. 2012-03.
  The Effects of Shocks, Gender and Culture on Asset Accumulation, by Agnes R. Quisumbing, Neha Kumar and
  Julia A. Berman . February 2012. 4 pages.
• BASIS Brief No. 2012-02
  Who Owns the Land? Perspectives from Uganda, by Allan Bomuhangi, Cheryl Doss and Ruth Meinzen-Dick. February 2012. 4 pages.
• BASIS Brief No. 2012-01
  Asset Accumulation in Bangladesh: Trapped by Poverty and Gender, by Agnes R. Quisumbing. January 2012. 4 pages.
• BASIS Brief No. 2011-03.
  Insuring Health: Adverse Selection and Micro-health Insurance in Cambodia, by David I. Levine and Rachel Polimeni. December 2011. 4 pages.
  
• BASIS Brief No. 2011-02.
  Small Farmers and Big Retail: Supplying Supermarkets in Nicaragua, by Hope Michelson, Thomas Reardon and Francisco Perez. November 2011. 4 pages.
• BASIS Brief No. 2011-01.
  Can Cash Transfers Bring About Behavioral Change?, by Karen Macours, Norbert Schady and Renos Vakis. November 2011. 4 pages.
  

• BASIS Brief no. 2010-10
  Creating Incentives to Save among Microfinance Borrowers: A Behavioral Experiment from Guatemala, by Jesse Atkinson, Alain de Janvry, Craig McIntosh, and Elisabeth Sadoulet [Adobe Acrobat 64K].

• BASIS Brief no. 2010-09
  Marketing Complex Financial Products in Emerging Markets: Evidence from Rainfall Insurance in India, by Sarthak Gaurav, Shawn Cole and Jeremy Tobacman [Adobe Acrobat 88K].

• BASIS Brief no. 2010-08
  Fair Trade and Free Entry: Examining Producer Benefits, by Alain de Janvry, Craig McIntosh, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. September 2010. 4 pages. [Adobe Acrobat 53K].

• BASIS Brief no. 2010-07
  Impact of Subsidies on Fertilizer Use, Land Allocation and Forest Pressure: Evidence from Malawi, by Christopher Chibwana, Charles Jumbe, John Mazunda, Monica Fisher and Gerald Shively. September 2010. 4 pages. [Adobe Acrobat 60K].

• BASIS Brief no. 2010-06
  Identifying Borrowers in Malawi: Dynamic Incentives in Rural Credit Markets, by Xavier Giné, Jessica Goldberg, and Dean Yang. September 2010. 4 pages. [Adobe Acrobat 82K].

• BASIS Brief no. 2010-05
  Income, Poverty and Charcoal Production in Western Uganda, by Fydess Khundi, Pamela Jagger, Gerald Shively, and Dick Sserunkuuma. July 2010. 4 pages. [Adobe Acrobat 66K].

• BASIS Brief no. 2010-04
  Subsidies and the Consequences of Drought: A Field Report, by Rachid Laajaj and Aniceto Da Fonseca Matias. July 2010. 2 pages. [Adobe Acrobat 75K].

• BASIS Brief no. 2010-03
  Food Aid, Food Prices and Producer Disincentives in Ethiopia, by Getaw Tadesse and Gerald Shively. June 2010. 4 pages. [Adobe Acrobat 59K].

• BASIS Brief no. 2010-02
  Subsidies, Savings, and Sustainable Food Security: A Field Experiment in Mozambique, by Michael R. Carter, Rachid Laajaj, and Dean Yang. May 2010. 4 pages. [Adobe Acrobat 56K].

• BASIS Brief no. 2010-01
  Impact of Business Services on the Economic Wellbeing of Small Farmers in Nicaragua, by Patricia E. Toledo and Michael R. Carter. March 2010. 8 pages. [Adobe Acrobat 184K].

• BASIS Brief no. 2010-01-S
  Impacto de servicios para el desarrollo de negocios rurales en el bienestar económico de productores en Nicaragua, by Patricia E. Toledo and Michael R. Carter. March 2010. 8 pages. [Adobe Acrobat 184K].

• BASIS Brief no. 2008-08
  Altering Poverty Dynamics with Index Insurance: Northern Kenya's HSNP+, by Christopher B. Barrett, Michael R. Carter, Sommarat Chantarat, John McPeak, and Andrew Mude. November 2008. 2 pages. [Adobe Acrobat 47K].

• BASIS Brief no. 2008-07
  Insuring the Never before Insured: Explaining Index Insurance through Financial Education Games, by Michael R. Carter, Christopher B. Barrett, Stephen Boucher, Sommarat Chantarat, Francisco Galarza, John McPeak, Andrew Mude and Carolina Trivelli. October 2008. 8 pages. [Adobe Acrobat 326K].
  
  Spanish version available: Asegurando a los que nunca estuvieron asegurados: Explicando el seguro por índice a través de juegos de educación financiera
  

• BASIS Brief no. 2008-06
  Community-based Risk Management, by Ruchira Bhattamishra and Christopher B. Barrett. September 2008. 4 pages. [Adobe Acrobat 52K]

• BASIS Brief no. 2008-05
  Land Rental Markets and Land Access in Brazil, by Antonio Márcio Buainain, Patrícia José de Almeida, Fernando de Lima, and José Maria F.J. da Silveira. July 2008. 4 pages. [Adobe Acrobat 258K]

• BASIS Brief no. 2008-04
  Understanding and Improving Financial Access for the Poor, by Ernest Aryeetey, Dean Karlan, Justin Oliver, Laura Schechter, and Jonathan Zinman. May 2008. 4 pages. [Adobe Acrobat PDF 50K]

• BASIS Brief no. 2008-03
  Property Rights, Environmental Services and Poverty Alleviation in Indonesia, by John Kerr, Suyanto, John Pender, and Beria Leimona. March 2008. 4 pages. [Adobe Acrobat PDF 97K]

• BASIS Brief no. 2008-02
  Using Natural Capital to Manage Risk and Reduce Poverty, by Arild Angelsen, Monica Fisher, Charles Jumbe, Gerald Shively, and Dick Sserunkuuma. February 2008. 4 pages. [Adobe Acrobat PDF 46K]

• BASIS Brief no. 2008-01
  Weather Insurance, Price Information, and Hedging: Helping the Poor Manage Risk, by Shawn Cole, Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Stefan Hunt, Jeremy Tobacman, and Petia Topalova. January 2008. 4 pages. [Adobe Acrobat PDF 101K]
  

• BASIS Brief no. 2007-09
  Expanding Credit Access: Improving Microfinance Operations and Measuring Impact with Credit Scoring, by Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman. November 2007. 4 pages. [Adobe Acrobat PDF 81K]

• BASIS Brief no. 2007-08
  Pathways from Poverty: A Multi-country Study, by by John Hoddinott and Tassew Woldehanna (Ethiopia section); Linda Montillo-Burton and Agnes Quisumbing (Philippines section), Jorge Agüero, Michael Carter, and Julian May (South Africa section). November 2007. 8 pages. [Adobe Acrobat PDF 251K]

• BASIS Brief no. 2007-07
  Long-term Impact of Credit Constraints in Mindanao, Philippines, by Agnes Quisumbing and Linda Montillo-Burton. October 2007. 4 pages. [Adobe Acrobat PDF 298K]

• BASIS Brief no. 2007-06
  Improving Smallfarmer Access to Modernizing Value Chains in Indonesia and Nicaragua, by Thomas Reardon, Ronnie S. Natawidjaja, and Francisco J. Perez. July 2007. 4 pages. [Adobe Acrobat PDF 71K]

• BASIS Brief no. 2007-05
  Insuring Health: Testing the Effectiveness of Micro-health Insurance to Promote Economic Wellbeing for the Poor, by David I. Levine, Nhong Hema, and Ian Ramage. July 2007. 4 pages. [Adobe Acrobat PDF 71K]

• BASIS Brief no. 2007-04
  Enhancing Smallholder Competitiveness in the Face of Globalization, by Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Craig McIntosh and Tomas Rosada. July 2007. 4 pages. [Adobe Acrobat PDF 70K]

• BASIS Brief no. 2007-03
  Local Risk Management: Protecting Household Asset Building and Farm Productivity from Idiosyncratic Shocks, by Christopher B. Barrett, Ernest Aryeetey, Agnes Quisumbing, Akhter Ahmed, John Hoddinott, Felix Naschold, Jacqueline Vanderpuye-Orgle and Tassew Woldehanna. July 2007. 4 pages. [Adobe Acrobat PDF 72K]

• BASIS Brief no. 2007-02
  Land Tenure Reform and Beyond: Ensuring Women's Access to Assets, by Cheryl Doss, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Jeanette Carter, and Gorettie Nabanoga. July 2007. 4 pages. [Adobe Acrobat PDF 72K]

• BASIS Brief no. 2007-01
  Evaluating and Improving Interventions for Asset Accumulation, Risk Management, and Rural Poverty Reduction in Nicaragua, by Karen Macours, Renos Vakis and Vanessa Castro. July 2007. 4 pages. [Adobe Acrobat PDF 56K]
  
  Go to BASIS Briefs Nos. 5-48 (2001-2006)

Project working papers

2010

• Creating Incentives to Save among Microfinance Borrowers: A Behavioral Experiment from Guatemala, by Jesse Atkinson, Alain de Janvry, Craig McIntosh, and Elisabeth Sadoulet.

• Marketing Complex Financial Products in Emerging Markets: Evidence from Rainfall Insurance in India, by Sarthak Gaurav, Shawn Cole and Jeremy Tobacman. Full paper. [Adobe Acrobat PDF 232K]

• "Identification Strategy: A Field Experiment on Dynamic Incentives in Rural Credit Markets." Draft paper of initial results. By Xavier Gine, Jessica Goldberg, and Dean Yang.