Returns to microcredit, cash grants and training for male and female microentrepreneurs in Uganda

Fiala, Nathan

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.12.027

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“…The effects of capital injections are not universally positive, however. Fiala (2018) fails to find income effects from cash grants to existing businesses in Uganda. A cash grant programs to young men living on the streets of Monrovia and engaged in petty crime also had very short-lived impacts (less than one year) on enterprise and earnings, potentially due to the unusual instability and risk of their existence (Blattman, Jamison, and Sheridan (2017)).…”

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Impacts of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Jobs on Youth: 5-Year Experimental Evidence on Factory Job Offers and Cash Grants in Ethiopia

2019

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We study two interventions for underemployed youth across five Ethiopian sites: a $300 grant to spur self-employment, and a job offer to an industrial firm. Despite significant impacts on occupational choice, income, and health in the first year, after five years we see nearly complete convergence across all groups and outcomes. Shortrun increases in productivity and earnings from the grant dissipate as recipients exit their micro-enterprises. Adverse effects of factory work on health found after one year also appear to be temporary. These results suggest that one-time and one-dimensional interventions may struggle to overcome barriers to wage-or self-employment.JEL codes: J24, O14, F16, J81, O17

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Impacts of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Jobs on Youth: 5-Year Experimental Evidence on Factory Job Offers and Cash Grants in Ethiopia

2019

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“…In demonstrating that estimates of entrepreneurs' returns to capital are sensitive to the level of aggregation, this paper reconciles results from the enterprise grant studies described here with results from recent evaluations of cash transfers and microfinance. These evaluations estimate returns at the household level and find that gender of the recipient is irrelevant for household outcomes (see Haushofer and Shapiro 2016, Fiala 2018, Benhassine et al 2015, and Bandiera et al 2017 for examples from the cash-transfer literature, and see Augsburg et al 2015 andKevane andWydick 2001 for examples from the microcredit literature).…”

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Household Matters: Revisiting the Returns to Capital among Female Microentrepreneurs

Bernhardt

Field

Pande

et al. 2019

American Economic Review: Insights

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Multiple field experiments report positive financial returns to capital shocks for male and not female microentrepreneurs. But these analyses overlook the fact that female entrepreneurs often reside with male entrepreneurs. Using data from experiments in India, Sri Lanka, and Ghana, we show that the observed gender gap in microenterprise responses does not reflect lower returns on investment, when measured at the household level. Instead, the absence of a profit response among female-run enterprises reflects the fact that women’s capital is typically invested into their husband’s enterprise. We cannot reject equivalence of household-level income gains for male and female capital shock recipients. (JEL G31, J16, L25, L26, O12, O16)

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“…The research found no shortrun effects for female-owned enterprise either from capital offered or training received. However, it found large effects on profits and sales for male-owned enterprise that were offered loans and this study suggested that repayment requirements increased the likelihood of profitable investment (Fiala, 2018).…”

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Opportunities and challenges of Islamic microfinance in livestock production: An evidence from Syria

Almohamed¹,

Cheikh²

2018

Afr. J. Agric. Res.

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Islamic rural microfinance represents the confluence of three rapidly growing activities: microfinance, Islamic finance and agricultural development. It has the potential to not only respond to unmet demand but also to combine the Islamic social principle of caring for the less fortunate with microfinance's power to provide financial access to the poor people involved in rural farming. This paper aims to analyze the governmental agricultural microfinance based on the Islamic principle of Murabaha, using the rural area of Hama government, Syria as case study. The qualitative approach and collected data from the microloan provider was used in this research. The main results show the success of this type of agricultural microcredit to develop the livestock production and its high likelihood of sustainability because it does not conflict with religious and social considerations of the targeted group as well as the high repayment, and it uses the participatory approach of the target group. It could play a very important role regarding the empowerment of rural women by establishing their own projects, owning shares in the village fund, obtaining annual profits, and household investment which can help to improve their family's living conditions. The risks to this type of agricultural microfinancing includes agricultural sector exposure to natural, productive, price and institutional risks.

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Returns to microcredit, cash grants and training for male and female microentrepreneurs in Uganda

Cited by 67 publications

References 24 publications

Impacts of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Jobs on Youth: 5-Year Experimental Evidence on Factory Job Offers and Cash Grants in Ethiopia

Impacts of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Jobs on Youth: 5-Year Experimental Evidence on Factory Job Offers and Cash Grants in Ethiopia

Household Matters: Revisiting the Returns to Capital among Female Microentrepreneurs

Opportunities and challenges of Islamic microfinance in livestock production: An evidence from Syria

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