German Development Economics Conference 2024

Session

Parallel Session 5

23 May 2024, 15:15

Leibniz Universität Hannover

184. Stronger Together: Promoting Export through Female-only SME Consortia

Munch Florian (London School of Economics)

23/05/2024, 15:15

Gender Economics

Parallel Session

Exporting provides business opportunities with high returns but requires high managerial knowledge and skills, the network and confidence to create international contacts, and the scale to overcome fixed costs. All of which female entrepreneurs tend to lack. We conduct an RCT to test an intervention that tackles these problems simultaneously. Over two years, export-interested female...

108. Information asymmetries and female labour exchange in rural Tanzania

Christelle Dumas (University of Fribourg)

23/05/2024, 15:45

Agricultural Economics

Parallel Session

Development economists have long studied how informal arrangements among community members may substitute for an imperfect and incomplete market. This paper assesses whether informal arrangements may actually promote exchanges in the market. We study rural labour exchange groups, an organization that is found in many different areas but still underdocumented in the economic literature. Our...