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.
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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