| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP9564 |
| DP9564 What are we learning from business training and entrepreneurship evaluations around the developing world? | |
| Christopher Woodruff; David McKenzie | |
| 发表日期 | 2013-07-21 |
| 出版年 | 2013 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Business training programs are a popular policy option to try to improve the performance of enterprises around the world. The last few years have seen rapid growth in the number of evaluations of these programs in developing countries. We undertake a critical review of these studies with the goal of synthesizing the emerging lessons and understanding the limitations of the existing research and the areas in which more work is needed. We find that there is substantial heterogeneity in the length, content, and types of firms participating in the training programs evaluated. Many evaluations suffer from low statistical power, measure impacts only within a year of training, and experience problems with survey attrition and measurement of firm profits and revenues. Over these short time horizons, there are relatively modest impacts of training on survivorship of existing firms, but stronger evidence that training programs help prospective owners launch new businesses more quickly. Most studies find that existing firm owners implement some of the practices taught in training, but the magnitudes of these improvements in practices are often relatively modest. Few studies find significant impacts on profits or sales, although a couple of the studies with more statistical power have done so. Some studies have also found benefits to microfinance organizations of offering training. To date there is little evidence to help guide policymakers as to whether any impacts found come from trained firms competing away sales from other businesses versus through productivity improvements, and little evidence to guide the development of the provision of training at market prices. We conclude by summarizing some directions and key questions for future studies. |
| 主题 | Development Economics |
| 关键词 | Business training Consulting Randomized experiments Firm productivity |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp9564 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/538399 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Christopher Woodruff,David McKenzie. DP9564 What are we learning from business training and entrepreneurship evaluations around the developing world?. 2013. |
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