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...
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Language: | English en_US |
| Published: |
World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | 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 |
| Summary: | 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. |
|---|