If you give the poor cash, does it help? : ¿Ayudan las transferencias monetarias a crear trabajo y a lograr estabilidad? (Spanish)

In Uganda, researchers evaluated a government program that gave unsupervised cash grants to youth for small business development and training. Based on final results four years after the intervention, the cash transfers achieved nearly all the goals. Beneficiaries invested most of the cash in building business opportunities. While they still did agricultural work, they spent more time working in skilled industry and services and their incomes rose...

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Author

Blattman,Christopher;

Fiala,Nathan V.;

Martinez,Sebastian;
Document Date
2011/12/01
Document Type
Brief
Report Number
79446
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Uganda,
Region
Eastern and Southern Africa,
Disclosure Date
2015/10/09
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
¿Ayudan las transferencias monetarias a crear trabajo y a lograr estabilidad?
Keywords
young adult

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Blattman,Christopher; Fiala,Nathan V.; Martinez,Sebastian.

If you give the poor cash, does it help? : ¿Ayudan las transferencias monetarias a crear trabajo y a lograr estabilidad? (Spanish). From evidence to policy Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/629521467994625848

If you give the poor cash, does it help? : ¿Ayudan las transferencias monetarias a crear trabajo y a lograr estabilidad? (Spanish)

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