When Entrepreneurship Training Matters: Targeting Business Skills to Better Stimulate Firm Growth

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Published on 10 July 2015

Abstract

Providing entrepreneurs with business skills to help them grow their firms is important. But one size does not fit all - can better targeting of training programmes achieve greater returns to policymakers' investments?

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When Entrepreneurship Training Matters: Targeting Business Skills to Better Stimulate Firm Growth

Abstract

Other research note publications

Bricks to Blocks: An Exploratory Study of Policy and Practices in the Construction Sector of Bangladesh

An Analysis of Price Setting Behaviour in the Economic Community of West African States

Connections, Gender, and Access to State-Facilitated Private Sector Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Senegal

Firm Culture: Can Information Interventions Close Gender Gaps in Online Labour Markets?

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