The past two decades have seen exponential growth in the number of small and medium enterprises in Sub-Sahara Africa; however, about two-thirds of such enterprises often fail to take off, resulting to negative economic impacts at the micro and macro-levels. However, documentation of the subject...

A common concern with efforts to directly help some small businesses to grow is that their growth comes at the expense of their unassisted competitors. We test this possibility using a two-stage randomized experiment in Kenya which randomizes business training at the market level, and then...

We study in this paper the impact of formal training on wages levels in two African countries (Kenya and Senegal) using the Regional Program on Enterprise Development (RPED) database collected by the World Bank. Thanks to the employer-employees data, we observe the potential impact of current...