Promoting Basic Entrepreneurship Among the Ultra Poor

A series of recent studies have provided tentatively positive results on the ability of simple transfer programs, coupled with basic training, to enable the ultra poor to build basic livelihoods through simple entrepreneurial activities. Little is known, however, about where these programs will be successful, the mechanisms through which they work and their impacts on those that are excluded because they are relatively wealthier. This project is aimed at designing a series of RCTs that would allow researchers to unpack the mechanisms through which these basic entrepreneurial programs work. The ESR would work on design of these projects.