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The intervention includes group savings promotion, micro-entrepreneurship training and a lump-sum cash grant delivered to poor female beneficiaries of a regular cash transfer program. It was designed to address multiple constraints to productivity and livelihoods, but at a much lower cost (approximately $104 per household) than most stand-alone NGO graduation pilots and government-led economic inclusion programs. Results show substantial impacts on food consumption 18 months after the intervention. A reallocation of labor between economic activities is observed, along with higher revenues from agriculture and off-farm micro-enterprises. The intervention improves women's empowerment and some dimensions of social well-being. We find evidence of positive local spillovers, with improvements in food consumption and economic activities among households not assigned to the economic inclusion program in targeted villages. Results are consistent with the intervention broadly improving saving, sharing and financial support mechanisms, as well as potential demand-side effects in the labor and product markets. 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It is expected to be made public in the upcoming months. \n2. **Download and Place Data:** Once the data is obtained, users should download it and place it in the appropriate folder. See README for more details.\n3. **Run the Package:** After placing the data in the folder:\n      - Open the do-file \"MASTER_CHAD\"\n      - Update the globals in line 22-23 to your folder's location\n      - Run the do-file\n \nSince the data is not currently publicly available, the package includes the results produced by replicators in \"Analysis\\Output\\tables\". 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