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What are We Learning from Business Training and Entrepreneurship Evaluations Around the Developing World?
McKenzie, David J. - 2017
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. This paper undertakes a critical review of these studies...
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The Impact of Consulting Services on Small and Medium Enterprises : Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Mexico
Bruhn, Miriam - 2017
consulting led to better firm performance: one-year results show positive effects on return-on-assets and total factor … the consulting, but there is no singular mechanism as a panacea for all firms …
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A Profile of the World's Young Developing Country Migrants
McKenzie, David J. - 2007
Individual level census and household survey data are used to present a rich profile of the young developing migrants around the world. Youth are found to comprise a large share of all migrants, particularly in migration to other developing countries, with the probability of migration peaking in...
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Impact of Export Destinations on Firm Performance
Cebeci, Tolga - 2017
This paper evaluates the role of export destinations on productivity, employment, and wages of Turkish firms by comparing the performance of firms that export to low-income destinations and high-income destinations with firms that do not export. A combination of propensity score matching and...
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Corruption and Productivity : Firm-Level Evidence from the Beeps Survey
De Rosa, Donato - 2017
Using enterprise data for the economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS, this study examines the effects of corruption on productivity. Corruption is narrowly defined as the occurrence of informal payments to government officials to ease the day-to-day operation of firms. The effects...
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The Impact of Business Support Services for Small and Medium Enterprises on Firm Performance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries : A Meta-Analysis
Cravo, Tulio - 2017
Interventions designed to support small and medium enterprises are popular among policy makers, given the role small and medium enterprises play in job creation around the world. Business support interventions in low- and middle-income countries are often based on the assumption that market...
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Improving Management with Individual and Group-Based Consulting : Results from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia
Iacovone, Leo - 2019
management in Colombian auto parts firms. The first uses intensive and expensive one-on-one consulting, while the second draws on … agricultural extension approaches to provide consulting to small groups of firms at approximately one-third of the cost of the … smaller and statistically insignificant for the individual consulting. The results point to the potential of group …
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Who Cares About Relative Deprivation?
Ravallion, Martin - 2006
Theories of relative deprivation predict negative welfare effects when friends and neighbors become better-off. Other theories point to likely positive benefits. The authors encompass both views within a single model, which motivates their tests using a survey for Malawi that collected data on...
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Earnings Mobility and Measurement Error : A Pseudo-Panel Approach
McKenzie, David J.; Antman, Francisca - 2005
The degree of mobility in incomes is often seen as an important measure of the equality of opportunity in a society and of the flexibility and freedom of its labor market. But estimation of mobility using panel data is biased by the presence of measurement error and non-random attrition from the...
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Firm Dynamics, Job Outcomes, and Productivity : South African Formal Businesses, 2010-14
Aterido, Reyes - 2019
The formal private sector has a key role to play in fostering growth and reducing unemployment in South Africa--strengthening its performance is therefore critical. This paper looks at firm behaviour, firm entry and exit, job outcomes, and productivity dynamics using firm-level administrative...
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