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Galiani, Sebastián - 2014

The creation of non-contributory pension schemes is becoming increasingly common as countries struggle to reduce poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) - a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural adults over 70 years of age - we evaluate the effects of...

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Realizing the Gains from Trade : Export Crops, Marketing Costs, and Poverty

Balat, Jorge F. - 2010

This paper explores the role of export costs in the process of poverty reduction in rural Africa. We claim that the marketing costs that emerge when the commercialization of export crops requires intermediaries can lead to lower participation into export cropping and, thus, to higher poverty. We...

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Dangers of a Double-Bottom Line : A Poverty Targeting Experiment Misses Both Targets

Karlan, Dean - 2018

Two for-profit Philippine social enterprises, aiming to demonstrate corporate social responsibility by increasing microlending to the poor, incorporated a widely-used poverty measurement tool into their loan applications and tested the tool using randomized training content. Treated loan...

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The Returns to Microenterprise Support Among the Ultra-Poor : A Field Experiment in Post-War Uganda

Blattman, Christopher - 2015

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...

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Can Microfinance Unlock a Poverty Trap for Some Entrepreneurs?

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Breza, Emily; Duflo, Esther; … - 2021

, India, we find that “gung ho entrepreneurs” (GEs), households who were already running a business before microfinance …

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The Macroeconomics of Microfinance

Buera, Francisco; Kaboski, Joseph Paul; Shin, Yongseok - 2021

We provide a quantitative evaluation of the aggregate and distributional impact of microfinance or credit programs … targeted toward small businesses. We find that the redistributive impact of microfinance is stronger in general equilibrium … total factor productivity (TFP) increases with microfinance in general equilibrium but decreases in partial equilibrium …

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Universal Basic Incomes vs. Targeted Transfers : Anti-Poverty Programs in Developing Countries

Hanna, Rema - 2018

Developing country governments are increasingly implementing cash assistance programs to combat poverty and inequality. This paper examines the potential tradeoffs between targeting these transfers towards low income households versus providing universal cash transfers, also known as a Universal...

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Social Protection and Economic Development : Are the Poorest Being Lifted-Up or Left-Behind?

Ravallion, Martin - 2018

Standard measures of poverty may reveal nothing about whether the poorest of the poor are being lifted-up or left-behind, yet this is a widespread concern among policy makers and citizens. The paper assesses whether public spending on social protection benefits the poorest and hence lifts the...

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Colonialism, Inequality, and Long-Run Paths of Development

Engerman, Stanley L.; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - 2021

Over the last few years, colonialism, especially as pursued by Europeans, has enjoyed a revival in interest among both scholars and the general public. Although a number of new accounts cast colonial empires in a more favorable light than has generally been customary, others contend that...

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The Economics of Fair Trade

Dragusanu, Raluca - 2014

Fair Trade is a labeling initiative aimed at improving the lives of the poor in developing countries by offering better terms to producers and helping them to organize. In this survey, we provide a critical overview of the economic theory behind Fair Trade, describing the potential benefits and...

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