Entrepreneurship Programs in Developing Countries: A Meta Regression Analysis

Cho, Yoonyoung; Honorati, Maddalena

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“…F I G U R E 1 1 Intervention types across reviews. Note: This figure is based on the following 17 reviews: Blackmore, Lesorogol, & Iannotti, 2018;Blundo Canto et al, 2018;Bowler et al, 2010;Cho & Honorati, 2013 F I G U R E 1 2 Outcome types across reviews.Note: Number and types of outcomes identified across 17 reviews: Blackmore et al, 2018;Blundo Canto et al, 2018;Bowler et al, 2010;Cho &d Honorati, 2013;Devereux et al, 2015;Dickson & Bangpan, 2012;Halder & Mosley, 2004;Hemming et al, 2018;Higgins et al, 2018;Juillard et al, 2016;Liu & Kontoleon 2018;Loevinsohn et al, 2013;Stewart et al, 2015;Ton et al, 2013;Ton et al, 2017. [Color figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com] to better understand what drives their impacts and how they may be best integrated with, or promoted instead of, financial inclusion interventions, to enhance and harness the limited impacts we observe in financial inclusion. There may also be other alternatives worth investigating, such as social safety net programmes.…”

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Impact of financial inclusion in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of reviews

Duvendack¹,

Mader²

2019

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| PLAIN LANGUAGE SUMMARY | Financial inclusion interventions have very small and inconsistent impactsA wide range of financial inclusion programmes seek to increase poor people's access to financial services to enhance the welfare of poor and low-income households in low-and middle-income countries. The impacts of financial inclusion interventions are small and variable.Although some services have some positive effects for some people, overall financial inclusion may be no better than comparable alternatives, such as graduation or livelihoods interventions. | What is this review about?Financial inclusion programmes seek to increase access to financial services such as credit, savings, insurance and money transfers and so allow poor and low-income households in low-and middle-income countries to enhance their welfare, grasp opportunities, mitigate shocks, and ultimately escape poverty. This systematic review of reviews assesses the evidence on economic, social, behavioural and gender-related outcomes from financial inclusion. 1.3 | What are the main findings of this review? 1.3.1 | What studies are included? This review includes studies that synthesise the findings of other studies (meta-studies) regarding the impacts of a range of financial inclusion interventions on economic, social, gender and behavioural outcomes. A total of 32 such meta-studies were identified, of which 11 were of sufficient methodological quality to be included in the final analysis. The review examined meta-studies from 2010 onwards that spanned the globe in terms of geographical coverage.Impacts are more likely to be positive than negative, but the effects vary, are often mixed, and appear not to be transformative in scope or scale, as they largely occur in the early stages of the causal chain of effects. Overall, the effects of financial services on core economic poverty indicators such as incomes, assets or spending, and on health status and other social outcomes, are small and inconsistent. Moreover, there is no evidence for meaningful behaviour-change outcomes leading to further positive effects.The effects of financial services on women's empowerment appear to be generally positive, but they depend upon programme features which are often only peripheral or unrelated to the financial service What is the aim of this review?This systematic review of reviews systematically collects and appraises all of the existing meta-studies-that is systematic reviews and meta-analyses-of the impact of financial inclusion.The authors first analyse the strength of the methods used in those meta-studies, then synthesize the findings from those that are of a sufficient quality, and finally, report the implications for policy, programming, practice and further research arising from the evidence. Eleven studies are included in the analysis.---

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Impact of financial inclusion in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of reviews

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Mader²

2019

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“…The BDS programme in Peru offered technical assistance and mentoring, and organized groups to promote self-help strategies, to improve participants "management capital" (Valdivia, 2015). In the ELA programme (Bandiera, 2014) (Cho et al, 2013) and the Kenya Youth Empowerment Project (Honorati, 2015) provided stipends to facilitate access. For example, the Kenya Youth Empowerment Project provided stipends to cover transportation and food costs (Honorati, 2015).…”

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“…The literature suggests that problems might emerge from organizational arrangements, which can sometimes be too rigid and can limit decision-making processes. These problems range from administrative errors in processing participants' information to delays in signing agreements between relevant parties (Card et al, 2011;Cho et al, 2013;Departamento Nacional de Planeación, 2008). The programme lacked appropriate dissemination strategies to ensure recruitment, especially of the most vulnerable target populations (Galasso et al, 2004).…”

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Vocational and business training to improve women's labour market outcomes in low‐ and middle‐income countries: a systematic review

Chinen¹,

Hoop²,

Alcázar³

et al. 2017

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This Campbell systematic review examines the impact of vocational and business training targeted at women in low‐ and middle‐income countries. The review summarises evidence from thirty‐five quantitative studies with an experimental or quasi‐experimental design. The review summarises the impact of 30 interventions, containing data from over 80,000 women. The qualitative narrative meta‐synthesis includes findings from 50 studies. Included studies are experimental and quasi‐experimental evaluations which measured the impact of vocational and business training programmes targeting women 18 years or older, in low‐ and middle‐income countries. The review also includes qualitative and mixed‐methods studies that explore barriers to, and facilitators of, vocational and business training effectiveness. Vocational training has small positive effects: employment and formal employment increased by 11 percent and 8 percent, respectively, and income by 6 percent. There is some variability in the findings. Effects are larger in programmes with a gender focus. Effects on earnings, but not employment, are larger in programmes that include life skills training or an internship. Employment effects are larger in Africa and Asia. Effects are stronger six months after the start of the programme than twelve months after the start of the programme. Vocational training programmes were commonly outsourced without establishing adequate quality control procedures or monitoring mechanisms that may undermine effectiveness. Business training combined with cash transfers or life skills training increases the likelihood of self‐employment by 73 percent, and sales or profits by 7 percent. Business training with cash transfers did not have different effects from business training without cash transfers. Effects on sales are larger in sub‐Saharan Africa (15 percent). This larger effect may be caused by the stronger gender focus of those programmes. The positive effects on sales and profits appear driven by the inclusion of mentoring and technical assistance components that enhance business knowledge and practices. Structural barriers, such as distance and cost of transportation, time constraints for participation, and economic and labour market barriers, limit programme effectiveness. Gender norms such as occupational segregation and the unequal division of domestic and care responsibilities, as well as the cost and availability of childcare facilities also discourage women?s participation in vocational and business training. Plain language summary Vocational and business training benefit women on the labour market, but the effects of most programmes are smallVocational training has small positive effects on employment, formal employment, earnings, and income. The review in briefVocational training has small positive effects on employment, formal employment, and earnings. Business training combined with other programme components has positive effects on self‐employment, and sales or profits. These relatively small effects may be insufficient to jus...

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“…Cho and Honorati (2013) has addressed which interventions and combinations of programs are more effective in enabling the poor to operate their own business, which types of skills (business, technical, "soft skills") and capital (cash, in kind, credits) are more relevant? Von Graevenitz, Harhoff and Weber (2010) has found that Internal and external factors are crucial for the success of small business as perceived by rural entrepreneurs.…”

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A Qualitative Analysis of the Success of Entrepreneurship Development Programs Based on Segment Studies

Rana¹,

Jain²,

Singh³

et al. 2017

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Entrepreneurship Programs in Developing Countries: A Meta Regression Analysis

Cited by 71 publications

References 31 publications

Impact of financial inclusion in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of reviews

Impact of financial inclusion in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of reviews

Vocational and business training to improve women's labour market outcomes in low‐ and middle‐income countries: a systematic review

A Qualitative Analysis of the Success of Entrepreneurship Development Programs Based on Segment Studies

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