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Under-Savers Anonymous : Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device
Kast, Felipe - 2012
We test the effectiveness of self-help peer groups as a commitment device for precautionary savings, through two randomized field experiments among 2,687 microentrepreneurs in Chile. The first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are a powerful tool to increase savings (the number of...
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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 …, India, we find that "gung ho entrepreneurs" (GEs), households who were already running a business before microfinance … model of technology choice in which talented entrepreneurs can access either a diminishing-returns technology, or a more …
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Network Effects and Welfare Cultures
Bertrand, Marianne - 1998
political spectrum have argued that network effects have given rise to a culture of poverty. Empirical work, however, has found …
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Would Financial Incentives for Leaving Welfare Lead Some People to Stay on Welfare Longer? An Experimental Evaluation of 'Entry Effects' in the SSP
Card, David - 1998
The Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) is a large scale social experiment being conducted in Canada to evaluate the effects of an earnings supplement (or subsidy) for long-term welfare recipients who find a full-time job and leave income assistance. The supplement is available to single parents who...
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Can Self-Help Groups Really Be "Self-Help"?
Greaney, Brian - 2013
entrepreneurs providing the self-help group services indeed outperform their NGO-compensated counterparts along several dimensions …
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Women's Empowerment and Economic Development
Duflo, Esther - 2011
Women's empowerment and economic development are closely related: in one direction, development alone can play a major … literature on both sides of the empowerment-development nexus, and argues that the inter-relationships are probably too weak to …
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Empowering Mothers and Enhancing Early Childhood Investment : Effect on Adults Outcomes and Children Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills
Lavy, Victor - 2016
Empowering women and enhancing children's early development are two important goals that are often pursued via independent policy initiatives in developing countries. In this paper we study a unique approach that pursues both goals at the same time: empowering mothers through tools that also...
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Risk Sharing, Commitment Constraints and Self Help Groups
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Kochar, Anjini; Mahajan, Aprajit; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Evaluations of group savings and lending programs have largely focused on average impacts, rather than distributional impacts -- finding modest effects on long-term economic well-being. In this paper, we exploit the randomized roll-out of a self-help group lending program in rural Bihar, India...
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Currency Diversification and Export Competitiveness : A Model of the "Egyptian Disease"
de Macedo, Jorge Braga - 1981
The paper presents a dynamic portfolio model under currency inconvertibility which rationalizes the recent Egyptian experience of real exchange rate appreciation and currency diversification following the increase in oil exports and the partial financial liberalization that took place after...
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Protection and Competitiveness in Egyptian Agriculture and Industry
Hansen, Bent - 1974
Costs (DRCs), and crop acreage responses were calculated by the authors for their volume on Egypt in the NBER project …
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