The Returns to Microenterprise Support among the Ultrapoor: A Field Experiment in Postwar Uganda
研究发现，为乌干达北部极端贫困且受战争影响的女性提供150美元现金、五天商业技能培训和持续监督，16个月后参与者微型企业拥有率和收入翻倍，主要来自小买卖。
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.