This working papers offers an impact evaluation of two innovative programs cash transfer schemes from the Mexican Government: PROGRESA, which is a national anti-poverty scheme directed at chronic rural poverty, and PROCAMPO, a scheme designed to compensate farmers for the negative price effects...

This study analyses the opportunities and challenges presented by agricultural insurance instruments to deepen financial services in rural areas in a sustainable manner. It presents a public policy framework to guide the decision making process of public support and interventions. The focus is...

Este estudio analiza las oportunidades y desafíos que presentan los nuevos instrumentos de seguro agropecuario para fortalecer el sector financiero en áreas rurales de una manera sustentable. Se presenta un marco de políticas públicas para guiar el proceso de toma de decisiones sobre apoyos...

This study analyses the opportunities and challenges presented by agricultural insurance instruments in the deepening of financial services in rural areas in Mesoamerica. It outlines a public policy framework to guide the decision-making process. It concludes that, in order to support the...

Este estudio analiza las oportunidades y desafíos que presentan los nuevos instrumentos de seguro agropecuario para fortalecer el sector financiero en áreas rurales de una manera sustentable. Se presenta un marco de políticas públicas para guiar el proceso de toma de decisiones sobre apoyos...

This study analyses the opportunities and challenges presented by agricultural insurance instruments in the deepening of financial services in rural areas in Mesoamerica. It outlines a public policy framework to guide the decision-making process. It concludes that, in order to support the...

Understanding land accumulation dynamics is relevant for policy makers interested in the economic effects of land inequality in developing country agriculture. We thus explore and simultaneously test the leading theories of microlevel land accumulation dynamics using unique panel data from...

Este estudio presenta los resultados de la evaluación de impacto del programa CRIAR. Este programa tiene como objetivo incrementar los niveles de ingreso y seguridad alimentaria a través de mejoras en la productividad que surgen por la adopción de tecnologías agropecuarias. Para este estudio...

The volume Assessing the Effectiveness of Agricultural Interventions is the Special Topic for the Development Effectiveness Overview 2008-2009. The Special Topic provides an in-depth analysis of what we know about the effectiveness of projects in one of the Bank¿s specific areas of intervention...

Development Effectiveness Overview 2008-2009 is a tool by which the IDB accounts for the effectiveness of its work. It reports on the progress made in the Development Effectiveness agenda of the Bank.