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Business practices and performance vary widely among local peers. This paper identifies key determinants of such … heterogeneity among a sample of small urban retail shops in Indonesia, and experimentally tests whether learning about the best … study develops a handbook that associates specific business practices with performance and provides detailed implementation …
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Sectoral segregation is often used to explain a large part of a well-documented gender earnings gap in business profits. Women tend to sort into different sectors than men, and the sectors dominated by women tend to be less profitable. This paper investigates the horizontal dimension of sectoral...
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performance of women-owned micro and small enterprises in Ethiopia. The trainings were underpinned by psychology with a mission to … as impacts of the trainings on business performance were mixed. A key channel for an impact on profits is if the training …
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"This paper studies the factors banks perceive as drivers and obstacles to financing small and medium enterprises (SMEs), focusing on the role of competition and the institutional framework. Using a survey of banks in Argentina and Chile, the paper shows that, despite alleged differences in the...
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