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The Returns to Cash and Microenterprise Support Among the Ultra-Poor: A Field Experiment

SSRN Electronic Journal
2015
  • 21
    Citations
  • 14,869
    Usage
  • 39
    Captures
  • 2
    Mentions
  • 24
    Social Media
Metric Options:   Counts1 Year3 Year

Metrics Details

  • Citations
    21
    • Policy Citations
      17
      • Policy Citation
        17
    • Citation Indexes
      4
  • Usage
    14,869
    • Abstract Views
      13,181
    • Downloads
      1,688
  • Captures
    39
    • Readers
      38
    • Exports-Saves
      1
      • SSRN
        1
  • Mentions
    2
    • News Mentions
      2
      • News
        2
  • Social Media
    24
    • Shares, Likes & Comments
      24
      • Facebook
        24
  • Ratings
    • Download Rank
      21,277

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Article Description

We show that extremely poor, war-affected women in northern Uganda have high returns to a package of $150 cash, five days of business skills training, and ongoing supervision. 16 months after grants, participants doubled their microenterprise ownership and incomes, mainly from petty trading. We also show these ultrapoor have too little social capital, but that group bonds, informal insurance, and cooperative activities could be induced and had positive returns. When the control group received cash and training 20 months later, we varied supervision, which represented half of the program costs. A year later, supervision increased business survival but not consumption.

Bibliographic Details

Christopher Blattman; Eric Green; Julian C. Jamison; M. Christian Lehmann; Jeannie Annan

Elsevier BV

Poverty; cash transfers; credit constraints; microenterprises; employment; Africa; active labor market intervention; field experiment

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