PMMA-10422 Business Training for Microfinance Clients: How it Matters and for Whom?

Abstract

The microfinance sector grew substantially over the past two decades with the hope of helping reduce poverty. Now, it is increasingly clear that the microfinance revolution may not be enough for the task and additional innovations are required, probably with the incorporation of other services. Our study analyzes the potential for joining microfinance and business development services to the benefit of poor female microentrepreneurs in marginal urban and rural Peru. We do that through a randomized experiment on clients of village banks. We will be able to explore the effect of the intervention on different measures of the sustainability of the banks as well as on the growth of the businesses and the welfare of the clients. The last step will be to make policy recommendations based on discussions of the results with experts in the field as well as local practitioners.

Members

Project leader: Martin Valdivia

Project researchers: Verónica Frisancho | Paola Vargas

Journal publication

Authors	Co-Authors	Title of paper	Title of Economic Review	Bibliographic references
Martin Valdivia	Dean Karlan	Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training on Microfinance Clients and Institutions	Review of Economics and Statistics	May 2011, 93(2): 510-527

Working Papers

	Title	Modified	Size	Comments	Recommendations
	Business Training for Microfinance Clients: How it Matters and for Whom?	2008-09-09	382.79KB	0	1

Policy Briefs

	Title	Modified	Size	Comments	Recommendations
	Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training for Microfinance Clients and Institutions	2010-08-17	43.79KB	0	0

Final report

	Title	Modified	Size	Comments	Recommendations
		2007-02-02	147 KB	0	1

Proposal

	Title	Modified	Size	Comments	Recommendations
		2005-04-30	184 KB	1	0