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Digital market linkages: Going global with home-based work

Project Active since Firms and SGB Evidence Fund

This project explores how female entrepreneurs can overcome weak local demand in the presence of mobility constraints.

Researchers

Muhammad Farooq Naseer

Assistant Professor, Lahore University of Management Sciences

Ali Cheema

Associate Professor of Economics, International Growth Centre

Asim Khwaja

Professor of International Finance and Development, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Jacob Shapiro

Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University

Kaarvan Crafts has pioneered a skills training and women economic empowerment programme in Pakistan.This project explores how female entrepreneurs can overcome weak local demand in the presence of mobility constraints by using randomised controlled trials to measure the impact of skills training and market linkage programmes and inform how to integrate at-scale effective market linkage interventions.

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