A poverty-sensitive scorecard to prioritize lending and grant allocation: Evidence from Central America
Development projects are generally subject to a potential tradeoff between sustainability and poverty reduction. Grants are also commonly assigned without a standardized criterion. This paper proposes an innovative scoring tool that combines both a risk and poverty scorecard to prioritize lending an...
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| description | Development projects are generally subject to a potential tradeoff between sustainability and poverty reduction. Grants are also commonly assigned without a standardized criterion. This paper proposes an innovative scoring tool that combines both a risk and poverty scorecard to prioritize lending and grant allocation. We implement and test the instrument through a competitive fund for demand-driven projects in Central America intended to better link smallholder farmers to markets and improve their welfare. The evaluation results show that the highest-ranked projects generally have a larger economic impact on their beneficiaries than lower-ranked projects. We observe a larger effect on income, access to credit,and access to local markets, and the relative differences are stronger over time. The proposed scorecard tool is intended to better ensure the accountability and sustainability of development funds and can be easily adapted to different contexts |
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| spelling | CGSpace1461942025-11-06T06:36:47Z A poverty-sensitive scorecard to prioritize lending and grant allocation: Evidence from Central America Hernandez, Manuel A. Torero, Máximo grants lending development projects capacity development policy analysis risk poverty credit finance Development projects are generally subject to a potential tradeoff between sustainability and poverty reduction. Grants are also commonly assigned without a standardized criterion. This paper proposes an innovative scoring tool that combines both a risk and poverty scorecard to prioritize lending and grant allocation. We implement and test the instrument through a competitive fund for demand-driven projects in Central America intended to better link smallholder farmers to markets and improve their welfare. The evaluation results show that the highest-ranked projects generally have a larger economic impact on their beneficiaries than lower-ranked projects. We observe a larger effect on income, access to credit,and access to local markets, and the relative differences are stronger over time. The proposed scorecard tool is intended to better ensure the accountability and sustainability of development funds and can be easily adapted to different contexts 2016-04-01 2024-06-21T09:06:09Z 2024-06-21T09:06:09Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146194 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/158104 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153507 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160241 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161865 https://cn.ifpri.org/archives/4611 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Hernandez, Manuel A. and Torero, Máximo. 2016. A poverty-sensitive scorecard to prioritize lending and grant allocation: Evidence from Central America. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1518. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146194 |
| spellingShingle | grants lending development projects capacity development policy analysis risk poverty credit finance Hernandez, Manuel A. Torero, Máximo A poverty-sensitive scorecard to prioritize lending and grant allocation: Evidence from Central America |
| title | A poverty-sensitive scorecard to prioritize lending and grant allocation: Evidence from Central America |
| title_full | A poverty-sensitive scorecard to prioritize lending and grant allocation: Evidence from Central America |
| title_fullStr | A poverty-sensitive scorecard to prioritize lending and grant allocation: Evidence from Central America |
| title_full_unstemmed | A poverty-sensitive scorecard to prioritize lending and grant allocation: Evidence from Central America |
| title_short | A poverty-sensitive scorecard to prioritize lending and grant allocation: Evidence from Central America |
| title_sort | poverty sensitive scorecard to prioritize lending and grant allocation evidence from central america |
| topic | grants lending development projects capacity development policy analysis risk poverty credit finance |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146194 |
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