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The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners: the first three months after social-distancing restrictions
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291245
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Full esteem ahead? : mindset-oriented business training in Ethiopia
Alibhai, Salman; Buehren, Niklas; Frese, Michael; … - 2019
Is there a mindset gap holding women back in business? Can entrepreneurship training instill a set of attitudes … therefore may have a better understanding of the entrepreneurs' specific challenges. The study concludes that psychological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051923
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Why have lending programs targeting disadvantaged small-business borrowers achieved so little succes in the United States? /Timothy Bates; Magnus Lofstrom; Lisa Servon
Bates, Timothy Mason; Lofstrom, Magnus; Servon, Lisa J. - 2010
barrier limiting the ability of aspiring entrepreneurs to create small businesses, these programs are designed to alleviate … significant barrier to small-firm creation. -- self-employment ; entrepreneurship ; micro-lending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011536
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Monitoring costs, credit constraints and entrepreneurship
Banerji, Sanjay; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2012
to both frictions in the credit and labour markets. -- entrepreneurship ; monitoring costs ; credit constraint …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548201
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How can micro and small enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa become more productive? : the impacts of experimental basic managerial Training
Mano, Yukichi; Iddrisu, Alhassan; Yoshino, Yutaka; … - 2011
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Psychometrics as a tool to improve screening and access to credit
Arráiz, Irani; Bruhn, Miriam; Stucchi, Rodolfo - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408761
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Growing markets through business training for female entrepreneurs : a market-level randomized experiment in Kenya
McKenzie, David J.; Puerto, Susana - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632796
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Microentrepreneurship in developing countries
Jayachandran, Seema - 2020
This article reviews the recent literature in economics on small-scale entrepreneurship ("microentrepreneurship") in … attention to unique issues that arise with female entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012164765
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Promoting women's economic empowerment : what works?
Buvinić, Mayra; Furst-Nichols, Rebecca - 2014
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Economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on entrepreneurship and small businesses
Belitski, Maksim; Günther, Christina; Kritikos, Alexander - 2021
"Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses," the paper comprises four parts: a … systematic review of the literature on the effect on entrepreneurship and small businesses; a discussion of four literature …
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