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Rural Financial Policies for Food Security of the Poor: Methodologies for a Multi-country Research Project

Identifying policies and institutional arrangements for access to savings and credit systems

This paper is based on the work of a team of researchers at IFPRI and collaborating institutions on the scope of IFPRI's multicountry research programme on "Rural Financial Policies for Household Food Security for the Poor." The paper has two main goals:

  • To identify policies and institutional arrangements that help to integrate the rural poor into sustainable savings and credit systems;
  • To present the underlying conceptual framework and various methodological approaches that have been reviewed and tested by the team at IFPRI and at collaborating institutions.

The integration into savings and credit systems is not only expected to improve income levels, but also to stabilise the consumption of food and basic nonfood items by poor households. The analysis has been carried out both at institutional level and at household level.

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By Zeller, M., Ahmed, A., Babu, S., Broca, S., Diagne, A. & Sharma, M.
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