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Barriers to household risk management: evidence from India
Cole, Shawn; Gine, Xavier; Tobacman, Jeremy; Vickery, James; Townsend, Robert M.; Topalova, Petia (2009-05-01)
Financial engineering offers the potential to significantly reduce the consumption fluctuations faced by individuals, households, and firms. Yet much of this potential remains unfulfilled. This paper studies the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product designed to compensate low-income Indian farmers in the event of insufficient rainfall during the primary monsoon season. We first document relatively low adoption of this new risk management product: Only 5-10 percent of households purchase the insurance, even though they overwhelmingly cite rainfall variability as their most ...
Staff Reports , Paper 373

Journal Article
The Funding Environment for Community and Economic Development Nonprofits in St. Louis
Eggleston, Mike; Gutkowski, Violeta A. (2023-11-16)
An analysis examines the importance of grant-based funding to community and economic development nonprofits in St. Louis and how that funding is distributed.
Bridges

Journal Article
Two Multibanks Help Medical Diagnostics Firm Take Off
Community Development, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (2001)
The Texas Mezzanine Fund was established in 1999 as a statewide multibank community development corporation by Guaranty Federal Bank, Washington Mutual, Inc. and Jefferson Heritage Bank. The fund originates loans to fast-growing small businesses that don't qualify for traditional bank loans.
e-Perspectives , Volume 1 , Issue 1

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Fragmentation in Workforce Development and Efforts to Coordinate Regional Workforce Development Systems: A Case Study of Challenges in Atlanta and Models for Regional Cooperation from across the Country
Andreason, Stuart; Carpenter, Ann (2015-04-01)
The importance of human capital in regional economic competitiveness is increasingly apparent. However, structural changes, fragmentation, the instability of funding, and other factors have led to challenges for workforce development providers as well as workforce development systems. This fragmentation has created a less coherent and coordinated workforce development system. Often, metropolitan areas have many programs and policies in place to train workers for jobs that require sub baccalaureate credentials or skills. The lack of coordination in local training systems may limit the ...
FRB Atlanta Community and Economic Development Discussion Paper , Paper 2015-02

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Community Development Outlook Survey Materials, 2011-2023
Community Development, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (2023)
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis' Community Development Outlook Survey monitors the economic factors affecting low- and moderate-income (LMI) people and communities in the Eighth Federal Reserve District. The survey is sent to a variety of community stakeholders; results represent the opinions of those organizations that respond, which may vary from survey to survey. Data received are useful for strategic planning, community and economic development and public policy dialogue.
Community Development Publications and Reports

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Anchor Institution Strategies in the Southeast: Working with Hospitals and Universities to Support Inclusive Growth
Fazili, Sameera (2019-12-01)
Engaging universities and hospitals to address economic disparities—often referred to as anchor institution strategies—has been understudied in the Southeast. The author examines efforts to launch anchor institution strategies in the Southeast. First, the author reviews the anchor institution concept in economic development, noting how the strategy has evolved from single institutions focusing on a set of neighborhoods to expanding to multi-institution collaboratives that attempt to tackle economic inequalities at a city or regional level. Second, the author offers case studies of New ...
FRB Atlanta Community and Economic Development Discussion Paper , Paper 2019-02

Working Paper
Capital goods trade and economic development
Ravikumar, B.; Mutreja, Piyusha; Sposi, Michael (2014-05-01)
Almost 80 percent of capital goods production in the world is concentrated in 10 countries. Poor countries import most of their capital goods. We argue that international trade in capital goods has quantitatively important effects on economic development through two channels: (i) capital formation and (ii) aggregate TFP. We embed a multi country, multi sector Ricardian model of trade into a neoclassical growth model. Barriers to trade result in a misallocation of factors both within and across countries. We calibrate the model to bilateral trade flows, prices, and income per worker. Our model ...
Globalization Institute Working Papers , Paper 183

Journal Article
A Reader’s Digest: Uncertainty and the Outlook
Sly, Nicholas (2025-04-02)
Economic and policy developments are emerging rapidly, substantial differences in responses to these developments are evident across businesses and sectors, and uncertainty about their implications for the outlook is elevated. Recognizing these circumstances, this article provides a digest of work by Kansas City Fed researchers on how uncertainty can influence the outlook and highlights recent activities of regional businesses in the wake of heightened uncertainty.
Rocky Mountain Economist

Discussion Paper
Fragmentation in workforce development and efforts to coordinate regional workforce development systems
Andreason, Stuart; Carpenter, Ann (2015-04-01)
The importance of human capital in regional economic competitiveness is increasingly apparent. However, structural changes, fragmentation, the instability of funding, and other factors have led to challenges for workforce development providers as well as workforce development systems. This fragmentation has created a less coherent and coordinated workforce development system. Often, metropolitan areas have many programs and policies in place to train workers for jobs that require sub-baccalaureate credentials or skills. The lack of coordination in local training systems may limit the ...
FRB Atlanta Community and Economic Development Discussion Paper , Paper 2015-2

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