Seed Research Library

The Seed research library serves as a resource for Stanford faculty and PhD students conducting work on poverty alleviation.

This library hosts a collection of completed research project findings, including published research papers, video content, articles, and more funded by Seed through the Stanford King Center on Global Development.

All researchers received funding support for their projects from the Innovation & Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies Award Program, or I-Award; the Global Development and Poverty Initiative Award Program; or the Discovery Awards Program.

Seed Research Projects Search Opensearch
Award Type
Results for

Can Novel Financial Assets Mitigate Ethnic Conflict?

Principal Investigator
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
India, Israel
Award Date
February 2015

Making More Than a Market: Carbon Credits in the Western Brazilian Amazon

Principal Investigator
Maron Greenleaf Anthropology Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD Fellowship
Research Locations
Brazil
Award Date
February 2015

Misallocation, Political Connections, and Firms’ Performance

Principal Investigator
Francisco Muñoz Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD Fellowship
Research Locations
Brazil, Chile, Uganda
Award Date
February 2015

Responsible Sourcing from Developing Economies: Management Innovations for Scalable Direct Trade with Dryland Farmers

Principal Investigator
Joann de Zegher Environmental Earth System Science Department, Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Award Type
PhD Fellowship
Research Locations
Argentina
Award Date
February 2015

Seed Transformation Program Study

Principal Investigator
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Award Type
Faculty Discovery Award
Research Locations
Ghana
Award Date
February 2015

Selective Trials for Technology Adoption

Principal Investigator
Pascaline Dupas Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
Kenya
Award Date
February 2015

Climate and Global Poverty

Principal Investigator
Marshall Burke Earth System Science Department, Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
Global
Award Date
January 2015

Corruption, Trust, and Firms’ Access to Finance: Evidence from Brazil

Principal Investigator
Emanuele Colonnelli Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD Fellowship
Research Locations
Brazil, Ghana, Uganda
Award Date
January 2015

Conversion of Biogas From Organic Wastes Into a High-Value Fish Food Supplement for Aquaculture in Bangladesh

Principal Investigator
Craig Criddle Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, Stanford School of Engineering
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
Bangladesh
Award Date
December 2014

Emergent Issues in Private Family Business Research: Family Dynamics, Firm Strategy, and Policy Changes

Principal Investigator
Jian Bai Li Management Science & Engineering Department, Stanford School of Engineering
Award Type
PhD I-Award
Research Locations
China
Award Date
December 2014

Influencing China’s Investment in African Agriculture

Principal Investigator
Peter Vitousek Biology Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
China
Award Date
December 2014

Liberating the Other 700 Million: Strategies of Rural Entrepreneurs in China’s E-Commerce Revolution

Principal Investigator
Wesley Koo Materials Science & Engineering Department, Stanford School of Engineering
Award Type
PhD I-Award
Research Locations
China
Award Date
December 2014

Measuring and Scaling Mortality in Mexico

Principal Investigator
Alberto Diaz-Cayeros Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
Mexico
Award Date
December 2014

Microfinance as a Novel Tool to Decrease Intimate Partner Violence in the Nairobi Slums

Principal Investigator
David Cornfield Stanford School of Medicine
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
December 2014

Participation in International Testing: Politics, Policy and Practice

Principal Investigator
Philip Lipscy Political Science Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
Belgium
Award Date
December 2014

Piloting a Market-Based Approach for Sustainable Urban Sanitation

Principal Investigator
Jenna Davis Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, Stanford School of Engineering
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
Bangladesh
Award Date
December 2014

Poverty, Violence, and Coercive Drug Rehabilitation in Mexico City and Guatemala City

Principal Investigator
Angela Garcia Anthropology Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
Guatemala
Award Date
December 2014

Poverty, Violence, and Coercive Drug Rehabilitation in Mexico City and Guatemala City

Principal Investigator
Award Type
Faculty GDP Capacity-Building Project Award
Research Locations
Guatemala, Mexico
Award Date
December 2014

Presumptive Taxation, Liquidity Constraints, and Tax Compliance: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Principal Investigator
John Shoven Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
Kenya
Award Date
December 2014

SMS Technology and Governance

Principal Investigator
Jonathan Rodden Political Science Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
Uganda
Award Date
December 2014

Trade Credit Information Sharing Among SMEs in Kenya

Principal Investigator
Sindy Li Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD Fellowship, PhD I-Award
Research Locations
Kenya
Award Date
December 2014

The Economic Impacts of Ebola: The First 100 Firms

Principal Investigator
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
Sierra Leone
Award Date
November 2014

An Experiment in Community Pricing (Pilot Phase)

Principal Investigator
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
Rwanda
Award Date
September 2014

Becoming Business People: Entrepreneurship and In/Dependence in Botswana

Principal Investigator
Hilary Chart Anthropology Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD Fellowship
Research Locations
Botswana
Award Date
June 2014