Rural Development

	Community Driven Development (CDD) Presents research on the impact of CDD on poverty targeting effectiveness of public service delivery, and sustainability of community infrastructure, and on a community’s capacity for collective action; on decentralization and CDD, and on the role of community organizations in enhancing the productive capacity of the poor. This early research work fed into the upcoming Policy Research Report on Community Driven Development to be released in late 2011. More on PRRs >>
	Land Policy Studies issues pertaining to land tenure, land markets, and land reform.
	Rural Informal and Micro Finance Addresses the long-run impact of micro-credit programs; the consequences of increasing competition among micro-finance providers on the market for credit and the sustainability of micro-credit; the interaction of informal rural financial markets with formal financial intermediaries, including micro-credit providers; and the impact of new product/design innovations in micro-credit programs using randomized placement and a fully experimental evaluation design.

WPS5867	Estimating the long-term impacts of rural roads : a dynamic panel approach	Khandker, Shahidur R.; Koolwal, Gayatri B.	2011/10
WPS5765	Environmental and gender impacts of land tenure regularization in Africa : pilot evidence from Rwanda	Ali, Daniel Ayalew; Deininger, Klaus; Goldstein, Markus	2011/08
WPS5727	Productivity effects of land rental markets in Ethiopia : Evidence from a matched tenant-landlord sample	Deininger, Klaus; Ali, Daniel Ayalew; Alemu, Tekie	2011/07
WPS5717	Can diaries help improve agricultural production statistics ? Evidence from Uganda	Deininger, Klaus; Carletto, Calogero; Savastano, Sara; Muwonge, James	2011/06
WPS5710	Crossing boundaries : gender, caste and schooling in rural Pakistan	Jacoby, Hanan G.; Mansuri, Ghazala	2011/06

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