Business Training for Female Microenterprise Owners in Kenya Grew Their Firms without Harming Their Competitors

Business training is one of the most common support services offered by governments to small firms around the world. However, a number of evaluations of such training programs have struggled to identify impacts, and an additional concern has been t...

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Main Authors: McKenzie, David, Puerto, Susana
Format: Brief
Language:English
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Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
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spelling okr-10986-262852021-05-25T10:54:44Z Business Training for Female Microenterprise Owners in Kenya Grew Their Firms without Harming Their Competitors McKenzie, David Puerto, Susana women entrepreneurs microenterprises training skills gender Business training is one of the most common support services offered by governments to small firms around the world. However, a number of evaluations of such training programs have struggled to identify impacts, and an additional concern has been that any growth of trained firms might at the expense of their competitors. In contrast, supporters of training programs argue that there might be positive benefits to other firms in the economy, if better business practices are like a technology that others can observe and copy, or if training encourages collective action. The authors designed an experiment to measure both the direct and spillover impacts of training. 2017-03-16T19:08:47Z 2017-03-16T19:08:47Z 2017-03 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/364401488865513851/Business-training-for-female-microenterprise-owners-in-Kenya-grew-their-firms-without-harming-their-competitors http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26285 English en_US Finance and PSD Impact;No. 42 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief Africa Kenya
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Business Training for Female Microenterprise Owners in Kenya Grew Their Firms without Harming Their Competitors
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relation Finance and PSD Impact;No. 42
description Business training is one of the most common support services offered by governments to small firms around the world. However, a number of evaluations of such training programs have struggled to identify impacts, and an additional concern has been that any growth of trained firms might at the expense of their competitors. In contrast, supporters of training programs argue that there might be positive benefits to other firms in the economy, if better business practices are like a technology that others can observe and copy, or if training encourages collective action. The authors designed an experiment to measure both the direct and spillover impacts of training.
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Puerto, Susana
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title Business Training for Female Microenterprise Owners in Kenya Grew Their Firms without Harming Their Competitors
title_short Business Training for Female Microenterprise Owners in Kenya Grew Their Firms without Harming Their Competitors
title_full Business Training for Female Microenterprise Owners in Kenya Grew Their Firms without Harming Their Competitors
title_fullStr Business Training for Female Microenterprise Owners in Kenya Grew Their Firms without Harming Their Competitors
title_full_unstemmed Business Training for Female Microenterprise Owners in Kenya Grew Their Firms without Harming Their Competitors
title_sort business training for female microenterprise owners in kenya grew their firms without harming their competitors
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2017
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