NUBLs growth leveled off just as expansion of SHGs accelerated in India. This was not a coincidence. The Maoist insurgency in Nepal severely restricted...
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This policy brief is designed to help policymakers and practitioners understand the financial services needed by the poor. It is framed within lessons learned...
This policy brief summarizes lessons learned from IFPRI´s multicountry program on rural finance and household food security with regard to the poors’ demand...
This paper presents new evidence on the association between gender and poverty based on an empirical analysis of 11 data sets from 10 developing countries. The...
When agroecology is considered, the hill regions are divided into three (Table 1.1) resulting in five distinct domains that vary in their resource endowment...
With the increasing recognition that agricultural growth and development do not necessarily translate into improved nutrition outcomes, policymakers are...
We also show statistically significant impacts of irrigation using a hedonic model with two cross-sections of data. Our hedonic estimates of the effect of...
This paper is based on the findings from six forest users groups implementing a program aimed at strengthening governance at the local level through increased...
Recent research has shown that improving women’s decisionmaking power relative to men’s within households leads to improvements in a variety of well-being...
This study is expected to contribute to the formulation of the NMTPF for Nepal. The main objective of the study is to identify the major issues and challenges...