Library items filed under: Quantitative Research
Asset Transfer Programme for the Ultra Poor: A Randomized Control Trial Evaluation
Asset Transfer Programme for the Ultra Poor The world’s poorest people lack both capital and skills and are trapped in low return occupations. Whether their economic lives can be transformed by programmes which attempt to tackle both constraints by providing assets and training to enable them to run small businesses is however unknown. To shed …
Failure vs. Displacement: Why an Innovative Anti-Poverty Program showed no Net Impact – DRAFT (July 2012)
This document present results from a randomized trial of an innovative anti-poverty program in India. Instead of a safety net, the program provides “ultra-poor” households with inputs to create a new livelihood and attain economic independence. We find no statistically significant evidence of lasting net impact on consumption, income or asset accumulation. The main impact was …
Targeting—What Strategy, for What Purpose? – Insights from Honduras and Peru – Quantitative Research
Insights from Honduras and Peru – Quantitative Research
Impact: What Do We Know so Far? – SKS
Failure vs. displacement: Why an Innovative Anti-Poverty Program Showed No Net Impact
Impact: What Do We Know so Far? – Bandhan
Targeting the Ultra Poor: Impact Assessment – Bandhan Preliminary Results
Impact: What Do We Know so Far? – BRAC
Can basic entrepreneurship transform the economic lives of the poor?
DRAFT: Targeting the Hard-Core Poor: An Impact Assessment (November 2011)
This study reports the results of a randomized impact evaluation of a program designed to reach the poorest of the poor and elevate them out of extreme poverty at Bandhan in West Bengal, India. The program, which includes the direct transfer of productive assets (e.g. livestock) and additional training, was initially developed in Bangladesh by …
Pakistan Baseline Results Presentation
Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) presentation on the Pakistan Graduation Program’s baseline data. Lalchand Luhana, IPA, recently blogged on the Community of Practice on the baseline survey results.
