Please use this form to submit your study for inclusion into our database. It will be checked by a member of the Innovation Growth Lab team, who may be in contact to ask for more information. Your email address * Your name * Title * The name of the study Short summary Entrepreneurship programmes have a strong positive effect on youths, particularly on labour-market activities and business-practice outcomes, and improve business knowledge and practice, particularly for existing entrepreneurs. However, there is no evidence that this translates into improved business performance and increased income. A brief description of the project's goals and its current state Abstract <p>This paper provides a synthetic and systematic review on the effectiveness of various entrepreneurship programs in developing countries It adopts a meta-regression analysis using 37 impact evaluation studies that were in the public domain by March 2012, and draws out several lessons on the design of the programs The paper observes wide variation in program effectiveness across different interventions depending on outcomes, types of beneficiaries, and country context Over, entrepreneurship programs have a positive and large impact for youth and on business knowledge and practice, but no immediate translation into business set-up and expansion or increased income At a disaggregate level by outcome groups, providing a package of training and financing is more effective for labor activities In addition, financing support appears more effective for women and business training for existing entrepreneurs than other interventions to improve business performance.</p> The full abstract of the study, if available Links https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927537114000402 Links to any published papers and related discussions Authors * Affiliations Academic and other institutes that the authors of the study are members of Delivery partner Organisations involved in delivering the trial, if appropriate Year Year Year199419951996199719981999200020012002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026 Month MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec Day Day12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 Journal Journal publishing the study, if available Publication stage * Working Paper Published Ongoing Research Forthcoming Discussion Paper Research theme * Entrepreneurship Innovation Business Growth Country Country or countries where this study took place. Topics What sort of topics does the study cover? Sample attributes Hypotheses / research question What is the effectiveness of entrepreneurship programmes as a tool to improve the livelihoods of people in low- and middle-income countries? How do effects vary by programme design and implementation features? Sample Trial population and sample selection The authors included 37 impact-evaluation studies in the review. The studies cover 25 countries across sub-Saharan Africa (nine studies), South Asia (10 studies), Latin America and the Caribbean (10 studies), East Asia and the Pacific (four studies), Eastern Europe (two studies) and North Africa (two studies). Two-thirds of the interventions evaluated came from low-income or lower-middle-income countries. Of the estimates, 80% were based on experimental interventions. Number of treatment groups Size of treatment groups Various Size of control group Unit of analysis Clustered? Yes No Cluster details Trial attributes Treatment description Various Rounds of data collection Baseline data collection and method Various Data collection method and data collected Evaluation Outcome variables <p>The most commonly measured outcomes were labour-market income, profits and labour-market activities.</p> Results <p>Population: Youth, those in higher education, and the urban population are more likely to experience a positive impact from entrepreneurship programmes, meanwhile microcredit clients experience fewer benefits than the general population. Women appear to benefit most from financing support, but do not significantly benefit from entrepreneurship programmes. Existing entrepreneurs benefit from business training by improving business knowledge, but this has not been shown to translate into better business performance. Intervention Delivery: Private-sector and NGO delivery is more likely to lead to programme success than those delivered by banks or microfinance institutions. Training programmes are associated with greater impact in the short-term, while financing programmes seem to work better in the long-term. Intervention Type: Among programmes with a training component, vocational training is most likely to lead to programme success, particularly when combined with either counselling or financing services. General business training, alone or in combination with mentoring/counselling, is more effective than financial training, which offers the least benefits. Adding financing support to business training does not seem to improve effectiveness. Among financing interventions, cash and in-kind transfer programmes with training components have greater impacts than microcredit. Adding training components to microfinance is not associated with greater impact. Financing alone can improve business performance, while training alone can improve business knowledge and practice. A combination of the two is most effective in promoting labour-market outcomes.</p> Intervention costs Not available. Cost benefit ratio Reference Cho, Y., & Honorati, M. (2014). Entrepreneurship programs in developing countries: A meta regression analysis. Labour Economics, 28, 110-130. Citation for use in academic references
