Personal initiative training leads to remarkable growth of women- owned small businesses in Togo (English)

Standard business training programs aim to boost the incomes of the millions of self-employed business owners in developing countries, by teaching accounting, marketing and other basic business skills. However, research shows limited impacts of this traditional business training approach. Through an experiment in Togo, we introduced the personal initiative training program, a new and effective psychology-based entrepreneurship training that outperforms...

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Campos,Francisco Moraes Leitao;

Frese,Michael Dr.;

Goldstein,Markus P.;

Iacovone,Leonardo;

Johnson,David Frank;

Mensmann,Mona;
Document Date
2017/01/01
Document Type
Brief
Report Number
122826
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Togo,
Region
Western and Central Africa,
Disclosure Date
2018/01/17
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Personal initiative training leads to remarkable growth of women- owned small businesses in Togo
Keywords
traditional business

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Campos,Francisco Moraes Leitao; Frese,Michael Dr.; Goldstein,Markus P.; Iacovone,Leonardo; Johnson,David Frank; Mensmann,Mona.

Personal initiative training leads to remarkable growth of women- owned small businesses in Togo (English). Gender innovation lab policy brief|no. 22 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/635311516194319062

Personal initiative training leads to remarkable growth of women- owned small businesses in Togo (English)

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