TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bandiera, Oriana
AU  - Burgess, Robin
AU  - Das, Narayan
AU  - Gulesci, Selim
AU  - Rasul, Imran
AU  - Sulaiman, Munshi
        TI  - Can Basic Entrepreneurship Transform the Economic Lives of the Poor?
        PY  - 2013/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 7386
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp7386
        AB  - The world's poorest people lack capital and skills and toil for others in occupations that others shun. Using a large-scale and long-term randomized control trial in Bangladesh this paper demonstrates that sizable transfers of assets and skills enable the poorest women to shift out of agricultural labor and into running small businesses. This shift, which persists and strengthens after assistance is withdrawn, leads to a 38% increase in earnings. Inculcating basic entrepreneurship, where severely disadvantaged women take on occupations which were the preserve of non-poor women, is shown to be a powerful means of transforming the economic lives of the poor.
        KW  - asset transfers
KW  - capital constraints
KW  - vocational training
KW  - occupational choice
KW  - structural change
KW  - poverty
        ER  -