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Rural Development
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| Agriculture and Rural Development Research |
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 | 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.
| | Economics and Institutions of Water
Presents four studies that shed light on the economies of irrigation water pricing: (1) ‘Water institutions and Sector Performance;’ (2) ‘Guidelines for Pricing Irrigation Water Efficiency, Implementation Cost and Equity Consideration;’   (3) ‘Micro-Macro Linkages Irrigation Water Management;’ and (4) ‘Monopoly Power and Distribution in Fragmented Markets: The Case of Groundwater.’
| | Land Policy
Studies issues pertaining to land tenure, land markets, and land reform. Presents a Policy Research Report on ‘Land Policy for Growth and Poverty Reduction'.
| | 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.
| | Rural Non-Farm Economy
Focuses on several areas that are of direct relevance to policy design, such as the contribution of infrastructure to the non-farm sector, the constraints on entrepreneurial activities in rural areas, and the relationship between rural poverty and the non-farm sector. |
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