The Returns to Microenterprise Support among the Ultrapoor: A Field Experiment in Postwar Uganda
The Returns to Microenterprise Support among the Ultrapoor: A Field Experiment in Postwar Uganda
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DOI：
10.1257/app.20150023
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发表时间：
2016-04-01
影响因子：
6.2
通讯作者：
Annan, Jeannie
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作者：
Blattman, Christopher;Green, Eric P.;Annan, Jeannie
我们发现，在乌干达北方，极端贫困、受战争影响的妇女获得150美元现金、5天商业技能培训和持续监督的回报率很高。在获得赠款后的16个月，参与者的微型企业所有权和收入增加了一倍，主要来自小额贸易。我们还表明，这些极端贫困的社会资本太少，但集团债券，非正式保险和合作活动可以诱导，并有积极的回报。当控制组在20个月后获得现金和培训时，我们改变了监督，这代表了计划成本的一半。一年后，监管增加了企业生存，但没有增加消费。
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. Sixteen 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.