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Can Microfinance Unlock a Poverty Trap for Some Entrepreneurs?
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2019
Can microcredit help unlock a poverty trap for some people by putting their businesses on a different trajectory? Could … facilitate escape from a poverty trap …
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Does Poverty Change Labor Supply? Evidence from Multiple Income Effects and 115,579 Bags
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2020
The income elasticity of labor supply is a central parameter of many economic models. We test how labor supply and effort in northern Ghana respond to exogenous changes in income and wages using a randomized evaluation of a multi-faceted grant program combined with a bag-making operation. We...
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Targeting the Poor : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia
Alatas, Vivi - 2010
to poorest. When poverty is defined using per-capita expenditure and the common PPP$2 per day threshold, we find that … poverty: the results of community-based methods are more correlated with how individual community members rank each other and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462673
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Unpacking a Multi-Faceted Program to Build Sustainable Income for the Very Poor
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2018
build sustainable income for those in extreme poverty. We focus on two important questions: whether a mere grant of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453443