Research Publications
IFPRI/FCND PUBLICATIONS
- Determinants of Household Access to Participation in Formal and Informal Credit Markets in Malawi. Aliou Diagne. FCND Discussion Paper 67. July 1999.
- Empirical Measurements of Households' Access to Credit and Credit Constraints in Developing Countries: Methodological Issues and Evidence. Aliou Diagne, Manfred Zeller, and Manohar Sharma. FCND Discussion Paper 90. July 2000.
- Rural Finance, Food Security, and Poverty Alleviation: Supporting Institutional Innovation Through Public Policy. Manfred Zeller and Manohar Sharma. Food Policy Report. 1998.
- The Propensity to Save from Separate Sources of Income: Evidence from Rural Pakistan. Richard H. Adams, Jr. 1997.
- Summary of IFPRI's Research on Rural Finance. Bonnie McClafferty, Manfred Zeller, Manohar Sharma, and Aliou Diagne. In Rural Finance Research in Progress, No. 8, 1997, issued by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 1997.
- The Impact of Credit-based Institutions on Subsistence Consumption: An Empirical Study Based on Household Data from Nepal. Manohar Sharma. 1997.
- Donors and Policymakers Can Make Microcredit Work for the Rural Poor. Manfred Zeller. News Release, February 1997.
- Rural Financial Services for Poverty Alleviation: The Role of Public Policy. Manfred Zeller and Manohar Sharma. Essay published in the IFPRI 1996 Report. 1997.
- Market Access by Smallholder Farmers in Malawi: Implications for Technology Adoption, Agricultural Productivity and Crop Income. Manfred Zeller, Aliou Diagne, and Charles Mataya. FCND Discussion Paper 35, September 1997. (Forthcoming in a special issue of Agricultural Economics in 1998).
- Commentary: Making Rural Microcredit Work for Rural Poor. Manfred Zeller, Manohar Sharma, and Bonnie McClafferty. IFPRI Report, Vol. 19, No. 1. 1997.
- Rural Finance for Food Security of the Poor: Implications for Research and Policy. Manfred Zeller, Gertrud Schrieder, Joachim von Braun, and Franz Heidhues. Food Policy Review 4. 1997.
- Livestock Income, Male/female Animals, and Inequality in Rural Pakistan. Richard H. Adams, Jr. FCND Discussion Paper 21, November 1996.
- Remittances, Income Distribution, and Rural Asset Accumulation. Richard H. Adams, Jr. FCND Discussion Paper 17, August 1996.
- Repayment Performance in Group-based Credit Programs in Bangladesh: An Empirical Analysis. Manohar Sharma and Manfred Zeller. FCND Discussion Paper 15, July 1996.
- Determinants of Repayment Performance in Credit Groups: The Role of Program Design, Intra-group Risk Pooling, and Social Cohesion in Madagascar. Manfred Zeller. FCND Discussion Paper 13, May 1996.
- Rural Financial Policies for Food Security of the Poor: Methodologies for a Multicountry research Project. Manfred Zeller, Akhter Ahmed, Suresh Babu, Sumiter Broca, Aliou Diagne, and Manohar Sharma. FCND Discussion Paper 11, April 1996.
POLICY BRIEFS
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Microfinance: A Pathway from Poverty Edited by Manohar Sharma Rural Financial Policies for Food Security of the Poor. 1994-2000. Summaries 1-14.
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JOURNAL ARTICLES, CHAPTERS, AND BOOKS
- Determinants of Repayment Performance in Credit Groups: The Role of
Program Design, Intra-group Risk Pooling, and Social Cohesion
Manfred Zeller
Economic Development and Cultural Change. 1998, forthcoming. - The Role of Rural Financial Services for Improving Household Food
Security--Concept, Evidence, and Policy Implications
Manfred Zeller and Manohar Sharma
In Overcoming world hunger: Challenges, opportunities, and strategies, ed. M. Shultz and U. Kracht. Münster, Westfalen: Litt Verlag. 1998, forthcoming. - Abstract of the Symposium on Rural Financial Institutions and Poverty
Alleviation: Emerging Results from Asia and Africa
Manfred Zeller, Aliou Diagne, and Manohar Sharma
American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 1998, forthcoming. - Can Social Security Programmes Do More with Less? General Issues and the
Challenges for Southern Africa
Lawrence Haddad and Manfred Zeller
Development Southern Africa 14 (2): 125-153. 1997. - Aufbau ländlicher Institutionen im Kontext von
Strukturanpassungsprogrammen (Institution building in the context of
structural adjustment programs)
Gertrud Schrieder
Entwicklung + ländlicher raum 31 (1): 21-24. 1997. - Repayment Performance in Group-based Programs in Bangladesh: An
Empirical Analysis
Manohar Sharma and Manfred Zeller
World Development 25 (10). 1997. - Les déterminants du rationnement du crédit: une étude des prêteurs informels et des groupements de crédit formel à Madagascar
Manfred Zeller
In Economie de Madagascar 2 (October): 175-199. (Published by the Central Bank (BCM) and the National Statistical Office (INSTAT) of Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar. 1997. - Credit Systems for the Rural Poor in China
Zhu Ling, Jiang Zhongyi, and Joachim von Braun
New York: Nova Science Publishers. 1997.
DONOR REPORTS (limited distribution)
- Determinants of Access to Credit and its Impact on Agricultural Productivity,
Household Food Security, and Nutritional Status in Malawi: A Synthesis of
Main Findings
Aliou Diagne
Final report submitted to the Rockefeller Foundation. 1997. - Rural Financial Markets and Household Food Security: Impacts of Access to
Credit on the Socioeconomic Situation of Rural Households in Malawi
Aliou Diagne, Manfred Zeller, and Charles Mataya
Final report submitted to the Ministry of Women, Children Affairs, Community Development, and Social Welfare and to GTZ in Malawi. Bunda College of Agriculture, University of Malawi, Malawi, and International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C. 1996. - Credit for the Rural Poor: Country Case Bangladesh
Manfred Zeller, Manohar Sharma, and Akhter U. Ahmed
Final report submitted to Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ). International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C. 1996. - Financial Services for the Rural Poor: A Multicountry Synthesis and
Implications for Policy and Future Research
Manfred Zeller, Sumiter Broca, Manohar Sharma, Joachim von Braun, Aliou Diagne, Franz Heidhues, Zhu Ling, Ellen Payongayong, and Gertrude Schrieder
Final report submitted to Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ). 1996. - Credit for the Rural Poor in China
Zhu Ling, Jiang Zhongyi, and Joachim von Braun
Final report submitted to Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ). International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C. 1996.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
- Impact of Access to Credit on Poverty and Food Insecurity in Malawi
Aliou Diagne
Paper presented at the symposium on Rural Financial Institutions for and with the Poor: Relating Access and Impact to Policy Design held at the XXII International Conference of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) on Food Security, Diversification, and Resource Management: Refocusing the Role of Agriculture, Sacramento, Calif., U.S.A., August 10-16, 1997. - Transaction Costs in Group and Individual Lending as an Influencing Factor of
Access: The Case of Poverty Oriented Micro-Finance in Cameroon
Franz Heidhues, B. Sossoh, and Gertrud Schrieder
Paper presented at the symposium on Rural Financial Institutions for and with the Poor: Relating Access and Impact to Policy Design held at the XXII International Conference of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) on Food Security, Diversification, and Resource Management: Refocusing the Role of Agriculture, Sacramento, Calif., U.S.A., August 10-16, 1997. - Rural financial institution building and gender sensitive demand analysis in a
food insecure environment
Gertrud Schrieder
Paper presented at the XXII International Conference of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) on Food Security, Diversification, and Resource Management: Refocusing the Role of Agriculture, Sacramento, Calif., U.S.A., August 10-16, 1997. - Determinants of Repayment Performance in Group-based Credit Programs:
The Case of Bangladesh
Manohar Sharma and Manfred Zeller
In Food security and innovations: Successes and lessons learned. Proceedings from an International Symposium at the University of Hohenheim, Germany, March 1996. - Group-Based Credit Programs in Bangladesh: An Empirical Analysis of
Participation and Repayment Performance
Manohar Sharma and Manfred Zeller
Paper presented at the Conference on Emerging Financial Markets: Implications for Economic Development, American University, Washington, D.C., May 17. 1996. - Determinants of Repayment Rates in Group-based Credit: The Case of ASA,
BRAC, and RDRS in Bangladesh
Manfred Zeller and Manohar Sharma
In Food security and innovations: Successes and lessons learned. Proceedings from an International Symposium at the University of Hohenheim, Germany, March 1996. - Placement and outreach of group-based financial institutions for the poor:
The case of ASA, BRAC, and PROSHIKA in Bangladesh
Manfred Zeller and Manohar Sharma
Paper presented at the Conference on Emerging Financial Markets: Implications for Economic Development, American University, Washington, D.C., May 17. 1996. - Adoption of Hybrid Maize and Tobacco in Malawi's Smallholder Farms:
Effects on Household Food Security
Manfred Zeller, Aliou Diagne, and V. Kisyombe
In Food security and innovations: Successes and lessons learned. Proceedings from an International Symposium at the University of Hohenheim, Germany, March 1996. - Credit Programs for the Rural Poor in China
edited by Zhu Ling, Jiang Zhongyi, and Joachim von Braun
Proceedings of a workshop organized by the Research Center for Rural Economic Policies (RCRE), Ministry of Agriculture, and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in cooperation with the International Food Policy Research Institute, Beibei, Chonquing, China, October 7-9, 1996. (Manuscript available in English and Chinese.) - Credit for the Rural Poor in Sub-Saharan Africa
Manfred Zeller, Gertrud Schrieder, Joachim von Braun, and Franz Heidhues
Final report to the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ). 1993
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