Money or Ideas?: A Field Experiment on Constraints to Entrepreneurship in Rural Pakistan

This paper identifies the relative importance of human and physical capital for entrepreneurship. A subset of rural microfinance clients were offered eight full time days of business training and the opportunity to participate in a loan lottery of up to Rs. 100,000 (USD 1,700), about seven times the...

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Main Author: Giné, Xavier (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C The World Bank 2014
Online Access:Volltext
Summary:This paper identifies the relative importance of human and physical capital for entrepreneurship. A subset of rural microfinance clients were offered eight full time days of business training and the opportunity to participate in a loan lottery of up to Rs. 100,000 (USD 1,700), about seven times the average loan size. The study finds that business training increased business knowledge, reduced business failure, improved business practices and increased household expenditures by about
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (69 p)
DOI:10.1596/1813-9450-6959