Top Policy Lessons from Africa Gender Innovation Lab Research
The study in Togo reveals that psychology-based entrepreneur training (personal initiative training) increases firm profits by 30 percent, compared to a statistically insignificant increase for traditional business training. Personal initiative tra...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/391921507319043537/Top-policy-lessons-from-Africa-Gender-Innovation-Lab-research http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28480 |
| Summary: | The study in Togo reveals that
psychology-based entrepreneur training (personal initiative
training) increases firm profits by 30 percent, compared to
a statistically insignificant increase for traditional
business training. Personal initiative training was
particularly effective for female-owned businesses, who saw
their profits increase by 40 percent, compared to no impact
from traditional business training. Getting more women into
traditionally male-dominated sectors of the economy could
boost the incomes of women entrepreneurs and their
households. Our study in Ethiopia revealed that firms owned
by women who cross over into male-dominated sectors are two
times more profitable than firms owned by women who remain
in traditionally female sectors, and they are just as
profitable as businesses owned by men. Women are more likely
to cross-over when parents and husbands support them and
when they have access to information on the higher earnings
potential in male-dominated sectors. |
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