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Research Projects
FY 2014/2015 Research Topic: B-1-04
An Evidence-Based Study of the Innovative Anti-Poverty Practices and Market Institutions
Outline
This research project conducts empirical microeconomic research to explore the roles of markets, institutions, and technological innovations in reducing poverty. More specifically, we will examine the factors underlying spatial rice market dis-integration in Madagascar and the demand for and impacts of innovative anti-poverty products and practices, including index-based livestock insurance in east Africa and ultra-poor microcredit and solar lanterns in rural Bangladesh.
Period
April 2013 - March 2015
Members of the Research Project
| [ Organizer ] | TAKAHASHI Kazushi |
| [ Co-researchers ] | ITO Seiro |
| KUDO Yuya | |
| SHONCHOY Abu | |
| ARIMOTO Yutaka | |
| KUROSAKI Takashi (Professor, Hitotsubashi University) | |
| SAKURAI Takeshi (Professor, University of Tokyo) | |
| KONO Hisaki (Associate Professor, Kyoto University) | |
| IKEGAMI Munenobu (Consultant, International Livestock Research Institute) | |
| Ralandison Tsilavo (Lecturer, Institut Superieur de Technologie d’Antananarivo) |