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 en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	women entrepreneurs microenterprises training skills gender
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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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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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author	McKenzie, David 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
url	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
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Business Training for Female Microenterprise Owners in Kenya Grew Their Firms without Harming Their Competitors

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