Britta Augsburg

Britta Augsburg

The Institute for Fiscal Studies

Britta Augsburg, Associate Director at the IFS researches the effectiveness of programs and policies that tackle constraints to productivity of poverty affected individuals and households, with a particular focus on credit and technology adoption constraints. Analysing the effectiveness of microfinance to induce uptake of household toilets has focused a significant amount of her research towards the field of sanitation, researching constraints to uptake both on the demand and the supply side, as well as understanding the complementarity of sanitation and other investments.