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Empowering the disabled through savings groups: Experimental evidence from Uganda.

Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Tungodden, Bertil
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2018-03
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Abstract
We report from the first randomized controlled trial of a development program

targeting people with disabilities: a village savings‐ and loans program in rural Uganda.

We find that it has had a strong, positive impact on the lives of the disabled participants, through providing access to financial services and strengthening locus of control. Our results suggest that such programs may represent a promising tool to empowering people living with disabilities in developing countries, but also that more comprehensive measures may be needed to overcome taste‐based discrimination against disabled individuals.
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Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, NHH
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DP SAM;5/2018

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