Special Research Topic
Poverty and Development

Projects

Project End 2022

• Improving the evidence on the impact of microfinance: An experimental study of microfinance-plus interventions in three countries

Project End 2021

• Electricity demand forecasting in agriculture – harvesting the synergies of machine learning and survey data for electrification planning in Ethiopia
• Exploring the role of intra-household bargaining on the take-up, usage and effects of an e-bank and savings account offered to women in Tanzania
• Impact Evaluation of the KCB MobiGrow Program in both Kenya and Rwanda
• Improved cookstoves in rural Senegal – Health effects and the missing market
• De-Carbonizing Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (DeCaDe)
• Price formation on the futures market and the physical market for cocoa

Project End 2020

• Electricity access through village grids in rural Senegal – Sustainability success factors and the role of micro-finance

Project End 2019

• A Randomized Evaluation of the Strengthening Rural Youth Development through Enterprise (STRYDE) 2.0 Program in Tanzania
• Increasing electricity uptake through micro-credit provision: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in rural Tanzania
• Impact Evaluation of the Netherlands supported Electrifying Rural Tanzania project
• Analysis of the employment effects of German development cooperation measures
• The socioeconomic and environmental impact of Konkan Railways

Project End 2018

• Impact Evaluation of the Intelligent Water Management Project Colombia
• Full Life-cycle Trial Periods as a Way to Stimulate the Adoption of more Efficient Bioenergy Technologies in Rural Senegal
• Effectiveness of Youth Employment Programmes

Project End 2017

• Access to Housing Micro-Finance in Uganda and Kenya
• Research Cooperation with Rwanda in Applied Macroeconomics

Project End 2016

• Access to Electricity in Rural Senegal through Standalone Solar Power Systems
• Electrification and Micro-Finance in Rural Senegal
• Payment over Time and Willingness to Pay for Off-grid Solar Technologies - a Field Experiment in Rural Rwanda
• The Effects of Market-based Reforms on Access to Electricity in Developing Countries: A Systematic Review of the Evidence on Effectiveness, Cost-effectiveness and Mechanisms

Project End 2015

• Improved Cookstoves and Pico-PV Interventions: Impacts on Employment and Income along the Value Chain

Project End 2014

• Integrated evaluation approaches to measure employment effects – Follow-up study Morocco
• Impact Evaluation of the Rwandan Electricity Access Roll-out Programme

Project End 2013

• Study on the employment effects of development cooperation measures – Country: Morocco
• Local Beer Production in Urban Burkina Faso – Impacts of Improved Brewing Processes on Firewood Consumption

Project End 2012

• Beratung zum Programm Berufsbildung 2010 Vietnam
• Impacts of Productive Use of Electricity and Industrial Zones Development in Ghana

Project End 2010

• KV Förderung von Modellberufsschulen in Vietnam

Project End 2009

• Entwicklung eines Monitoringsystems: Erhebung von Basisdaten an Beruflichen Schulen sowie Verbleibsuntersuchungen von Absolventen