, problems within firms are seldom scrutinized. Entrepreneurs in these clusters are unfamiliar with standard business practices … practices and performance, although the extent of improvement varies considerably among entrepreneurs …

Inadequacies in Tanzania's education and training systems compromise the quality of workforce skills, giving rise to …, possibly reflecting the universally acknowledged poor quality of secondary education in Tanzania. Employers use a range of …

, particularly for female entrepreneurs. This paper uses a randomized design to compare the impacts of two types of business training … programs targeting women with established small businesses in urban Tanzania. The basic version of the training relied on in … average. However, the average masks large heterogeneous effects: entrepreneurs with low levels of experience show reduced …

-depth studies in Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, and Tanzania between 2010 and 2012. The paper shows that the share of SME …

In recent years there has been a rapid increase in the presence and growth of greenfield microfinance institutions in … Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper uses regressions to benchmark those African greenfields relative to other microfinance … comparable to the top microfinance institutions, and substantially increased their lending to women. The effects were especially …