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A Majority of India’s Poor Women May Miss COVID-19 PMJDY Cash Transfers

This brief  discusses some ideas for how to increase access to the social safety net during a crisis.

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Loose Knots: Strong versus Weak Commitments to Save for Education in Uganda

Studying the effectiveness of different savings devices
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Finding Missing Markets (and a Disturbing Epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya

Assessing impact of an intervention to help smallholder farmers improve income
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Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training on Microfinance Clients and Institutions

Entrepreneurship training: Impact on economic outcomes for the poor
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Social Connections and Group Banking

A study of the link between social connections and loan repayments
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Microfinance Games

Do endogenous group formations reduce moral hazard?
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Expanding Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts

Would liberal loan screening criteria help in expanding credit access?
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Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

Would individually-held savings product leads to increase in female decision-making power?
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Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

The demand and supply of commitment savings (SEED) product in the informal sector