Cash Transfers and Micro-Enterprise Performance: Theory and Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Kenya
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Keywords
Cash Transfers; Micro-Enterprises; Market imperfections; Salop circle;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L2 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior
- O2 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENT-2020-08-10 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-MFD-2020-08-10 (Microfinance)
- NEP-SBM-2020-08-10 (Small Business Management)
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