Generating Skilled Self-Employment in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

Blattman, Christopher; Peck, Richard M.; Perkowski, Patryk; Welch, Keesler; Quddus, Shammi

doi:10.1257/rct.1042-1.0

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“…However, training was not related to life improvement, possibly because training programmes do not necessarily improve one's living condition or health immediately. But training programmes provide tools that can enhance the recipients’ skills, knowledge, cognitive functions, personal control, and self‐efficacy (see Blattman, Fiala, & Martinez, ; Eden & Aviram, ; Frese et al ., ; Hansen, ; Heyn, Abreu, & Ottenbacher, for more information). Training has the potential to contribute to a real sense of independence among recipients, by strengthening human capabilities and promoting actions that can change recipients’ future status.…”

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Empowering the poor: A field study of the social psychological consequences of receiving autonomy or dependency aid in Panama

Alvarez

Leeuwen

Montenegro-Montenegro

et al. 2018

British J Social Psychol

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This field study investigated the consequences of receiving poverty aid through conditional transfer programmes in the form of autonomy‐oriented help (i.e., cash) or dependency‐oriented help (i.e., vouchers) in impoverished rural communities in Panama. The empowering effects of autonomy‐ (vs. dependency‐) help have so far only been studied in laboratory settings, or in settings where help could easily be refused. Little is known about the reactions of people who rely on help for extended periods of time. This study provides insights into how aid recipients are influenced by the type of aid they receive. Results showed that, as expected, recipients of cash reported more autonomy, empowerment, and life improvements than recipients of vouchers. Training, another type of autonomy‐oriented help, was positively related to empowerment, personal, and family change beliefs. These findings illustrate the benefits of autonomy‐oriented help programmes in empowering people from extremely poor communities around the world, who rely on aid for extended periods of time.

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confidence: 93%

Empowering the poor: A field study of the social psychological consequences of receiving autonomy or dependency aid in Panama

Alvarez

Leeuwen

Montenegro-Montenegro

et al. 2018

British J Social Psychol

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“…These regions are distinct in terms of population density, business environment and history. Over the past ten years economic growth has been largely concentrated in the Central region that includes the capital city, while violent conflicts affected the Northern region between 1987 and 2006 (Blattmann et al, 2014). The Western region has also not escaped occasional (ethnic) conflicts (Espeland, 2007).…”

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Non-farm entrepreneurship in rural sub-Saharan Africa: New empirical evidence

2017

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We report on the prevalence and patterns of non-farm enterprises in six sub-Saharan African countries, and study their performance in terms of labor productivity, survival and exit, using the World Bank’s Living Standards Measurement Study - Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA). Rural households operate enterprises due to both push and pull factors and tend to do so predominantly in easy-to-enter activities, such as sales and trade, rather than in activities that require higher starting costs, such as transport services, or educational investment, such as professional services. Labor productivity differs widely: rural and female-headed enterprises, those located further away from population centers, and businesses that operate intermittently have lower levels of labor productivity compared to urban and male-owned enterprises, or enterprises that operate throughout the year. Finally, rural enterprises exit the market primarily due to a lack of profitability or finance, and due to idiosyncratic shocks.

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“…To the contrary, portraying potential recipients of African descent is good marketing. This suggests a potentially gloomy political outlook for the newfound efforts to deliver aid in the form of unconditional cash grants, which thus far seem to be more effective for recipient welfare than more paternalistic forms of aid delivery (Blattman, Fiala, and Martinez 2014). Yet this finding of relative charitableness toward Africa-descended persons rests on some uncomfortable truths.…”

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Race, Paternalism, and Foreign Aid: Evidence from U.S. Public Opinion

Baker

2015

Am Polit Sci Rev

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V irtually all previous studies of domestic economic redistribution find white Americans to be less enthusiastic about welfare for black recipients than for white recipients. When it comes to foreign aid and international redistribution across racial lines, I argue that prejudice manifests not in an uncharitable, resentful way but in a paternalistic way because intergroup contact is minimal and because of how the media portray black foreigners. Using two survey experiments, I show that white Americans are more favorable toward aid when cued to think of foreign poor of African descent than when cued to think of those of East European descent. This relationship is due not to the greater perceived need of black foreigners but to an underlying racial paternalism that sees them as lacking in human agency. The findings confirm accusations of aid skeptics and hold implications for understanding the roots of paternalistic practices in the foreign aid regime.

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Generating Skilled Self-Employment in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

Cited by 38 publications

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Empowering the poor: A field study of the social psychological consequences of receiving autonomy or dependency aid in Panama

Empowering the poor: A field study of the social psychological consequences of receiving autonomy or dependency aid in Panama

Non-farm entrepreneurship in rural sub-Saharan Africa: New empirical evidence

Race, Paternalism, and Foreign Aid: Evidence from U.S. Public Opinion

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