Another recipient of the 2013 External Grants

Dr Rashmi Barua
Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics

Project Title

The Effect of Entrepreneurship Training & Access to Microfinance: Evidence from Transnational Households in the Philippines

About the Project

Dr Rashmi Barua has been awarded with the Partnership Development Grant (PDG), an initiative by the Innovation for Poverty Action (IPA) and funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

The study evaluates a randomised experiment among Filipino domestic workers in Singapore to study the effect of entrepreneurship training and access to microfinance given to both the migrant and her main remittance recipient in the Philippines.

Project Duration

April 2013 - September 2013