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During 1993-1997, reports presenting research in nine country cases were completed. While these reports are not published, major results of this research have been widely published in other, more condensed form. Major research projects completed by the research team are:
- the multicountry synthesis study based on up to nine individual country case studies;
- finalization of the Malawi study on the access of the poor in rural financial institutions and their effects on household welfare;
- completion of the Nepal study on the role of credit in coping with income fluctuations;
- the completion and publication of the Food Policy Review on rural finance for food security for the poor.
- Also, as part of the larger Egypt project of IFPRI, related activity in Egypt included the completion of the household and community surveys. Analysis of the survey data will begin in December 1997.
- Under the joint research of the Markets and Structural Studies Division and the Food Consumption and Nutrition Division, a resurvey of 1992 household sample in Madagascar was recently completed. The availability of panel data allows a more in-depth analysis, to be undertaken in 1998, of the longer-term effects of credit access on household food security and nutrition.
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