CGD Working Paper - Cash and Small Business Groups for Ugandans and Refugees

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نوع الوثيقة: Reports and Assessments , Reports and Policy Papers
نوع الوثيقة: English
تاريخ النشر: 20 June 2025 (13 days ago)
تاريخ الانشاء: 2 July 2025 (1 day ago)
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CGD Working Paper - Cash and Small Business Groups for Ugandans and Refugees

نوع الوثيقة: Reports and Assessments , Reports and Policy Papers
اللغة: English
Constraints that inhibit small business growth are potentially amplified for groups with limited access to existing business networks like refugees and women. Programs that facilitate intergroup contact, in addition to capital, could potentially raise welfare, especially if incentives are aligned for participants to share information and invest effort in each other's outcomes. In a randomized trial with microentrepreneurs, we vary business grants, inclusion in a mentorship group, the gender and nationality composition of groups, and a "shared fate" component that compensates group members for the success of other members’ businesses. We find that grants substantially improve business outcomes for men, women, refugees, and hosts. Combining mentorship with cash has an additional positive effect for refugee men, but a negative effect relative to cash alone for women who run higher-profit firms. Mentors with higher baseline profits significantly improve mentees' business outcomes, while differences across group g
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