Year: 2016
Type: dissertation
Study design: Clinical Trial
Abstract: A billion people around the world live with disabilities, and 80% of them live in developing\ncountries. Persons with disabilities are overrepresented among those who live in absolute\npoverty and they generally have poorer health, lower education and fewer economic\nopportunities than those without disabilities. This thesis examines how Village Savings and\nLoan Associations (VSLA) affect persons with disabilities (PWD) in rural Uganda. The\nproject we examine, We Can Manage, was initiated by the Norwegian Association of\nDisabled (NAD) and National Union of Disabled Persons of Uganda (NUDIPU). Focus is to\nexplore the project's effect on social empowerment and entrepreneurial traits in participants.\nA randomized controlled trial with survey and in-field lab experiment was conducted to\nexamine how confidence, trust, happiness, locus of control, willingness to compete and\nwillingness to take risk was impacted. We found that implementation of the VSLA increase\nPWDs willingness to compete, confidence in other villagers as well as locus of control. We\nalso found an increase in locus of control for males. Our findings indicate that implementation\nof projects with VSLAs, such as We Can Manage, can have an empowering effect on its\nparticipants.
Source: BIBSYS Brage (BIBSYS (Norway))
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2492735463