economic development | The Impact Initiative

Can financial products reduce poverty and vulnerability? Experimental evidence from Benin on the impact of access to saving accounts and microcredit

Principal investigator: Philippe LeMay-Boucher. Lead Organisation: Heriot-Watt University

Co-investigators:Agnes Zabsonre; Louise Grogan; Gilles-Armand

Integrated policies to reduce poverty in its many dimensions

Principal Investigator: Sabina Alkire. Lead Organisation: University of Oxford

This research project addresses the overarching research question: What factors shape pathways into and out of poverty and people's experience of these, and how can policy create sustained routes out of extreme poverty in ways that can be replicated and scaled up?

A comparative study of effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of alternative poverty eradication interventions in extremely poor areas of Northern Ghana

Principal Investigator: Patrick James Nolen. Lead Organistion: University of Essex

Co-investigators: Isaac Osei-Akoto (University of Ghana) and Edoardo Masset (Institute of Development Studies)

Graduation as resilience stage two

Principal Investigator: Mushtaque Chowdhury. Lead Organisation: BRAC Centre

Co-investigators: Asheek Mohammad Shimul; Ferdous Jahan; Martin Greeley

Mobile payment systems to reduce rural water risks in Africa

Principal Investigator: Robert Adrian Hope. Lead Organisation: University of Oxford

Poverty alleviation and women refugees in the Middle East: empowerment through grassroots micro-entrepreneurship?

Principal Investigator: Haia Al- Dajani. Lead Organisation: University of Plymouth

Co-investigator: Susan Marlow

Contemporary political volatility within the Middle East region has led to far reaching socio-economic upheaval and strife with a devastating impact generating mass displacement of Iraqi, Palestinian, and Syrian refugees to Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey (UNCHR, 2014).

Zero Hunger - Zero Emissions: Enabling the debate on how to feed the world whilst mitigating climate change

Principal Investigator: Monika Barbara Zurek. Lead Organisation: University of Oxford (School of Geography and the Environment).

Shifting In/equality Dynamics in Ethiopia: from Research to Application (SIDERA)

Principal Investigator: Mercy Fekadu Mulugeta. Lead Organisation: Institute for Peace and Security Studies

Co-investigators: Kidane Kiros Bitsue; Jennifer Elizabeth Hodbod; Edward Geoffrey Jedediah Stevenson; Fana Gebresenbet Erda; Emma Jayne Tebbs

Negotiating conflict: environmental violence, economic development and the everyday practices of islanders

In developing countries experiencing high levels of poverty and inequality, getting the balance right between economic development and protection of the natural environment can be a major challenge for policymakers. This project will use an innovative approach known as 'everyday studies': a way of investigating the routine and seemingly mundane.