Microenterprise

Many people in developing countries are either self-employed or employed in small enterprises (roughly ten or fewer people). IPA’s research in this area investigates solutions to help these businesses thrive and grow through access to finance, skill-building, and encouraging first-time entrepreneurship.

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Boosting Firms’ Productivity in Mexico with Consulting Services

Compared to their counterparts in high-income countries, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in low-and-middle-income countries, are often less productive, grow slower, and hire fewer workers.

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Price Fluctuations and Supply Chain Credit to Cocoa Farmers in Sierra Leone

In perfectly competitive markets, higher valued agricultural products should translate into higher prices, putting more money in the pockets of farmers.

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Scoring for Access: Emerging Evidence on the Impact of Credit Scoring on SME Lending

In developing countries small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are thought to be an important source of innovation and employment because of their fle

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Download El impacto del crédito flexible para emprendedores en Colombia	Download El impacto de la capacitación empresarial y capital para emprendedores de alto potencial en Colombia
Download El impacto de la capacitación empresarial mejorada para emprendedores de alto potencial en Colombia	Evaluación del impacto de las cooperativas virtuales sobre las microempresas en Colombia
Credit Building or Credit Crumbling? A Credit Builder Loan’s Effects on Consumer Behavior, Credit Scores and Their Predictive Power	Saving for Multiple Financial Needs: Evidence from Malawi
Mexico Country Brief	Small & Medium Enterprise Program Brief
Do Job Networks Disadvantage Women? Evidence from a Recruitment Experiment in Malawi	Stress Management Practices, Owner Well-Being, and Firm Outcomes in Bangladesh
Cash-Plus: Poverty Impacts of Transfer-Based Intervention Alternatives	Competition in Agricultural Markets: An Experimental Approach
, Women’s Economic Empowerment Through Financial Inclusion	, Beyond the Classroom: Evidence on New Directions in Financial Education
Labor Drops: Experimental Evidence on the Return to Additional Labor in Microenterprises	Effect of a micro entrepreneur-based community health delivery program on under-five mortality in Uganda: a cluster-randomized controlled trial

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'Understand clients': The major theme from a World Bank forum on microcredit	Making everyday financial decisions: Do we know what we need to know?
Sparking a Conversation on Small and Medium Enterprises	Scoring for Access: Emerging Evidence on the Impact of Credit Scoring on SME Lending
Policy R&D for Better Management Training in the Developing World	Linking Evidence with Policy for SME Growth
Interview with Lucia Sanchez, SME Initiative Director	The Impact of Change (the monetary kind)
Crowding out Informal Savings and Borrowing	Posting Hypotheses for an Impact Study of Compartamos
Do you know better than the experts?	Small and Medium Enterprises: New Frontiers and New Challenges
CREDIT: Hannah Trachtman Global Lens: The Longstanding Tradition of Incorporating New with Old	USAID announces grant for IPA Evaluation in Kenya
Recent Random Research Roundup	Longest-running microfinance impact debate lives on

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Abhijit Banerjee in Medium on IPA Study of Graduation Model	IPA & Graduation Model Featured on PBS NewsHour
In Bloomberg, Noah Smith on Helping Small and Medium Enterprises Grow	Uganda's New Vision on IPA Research Showing Reduction in Infant Mortality
In Vox, IPA’s Research Comparing Giving Cash to the Graduation Model for the Ultra Poor	Vox on IPA's Work Comparing Cash to Ultra Poor Graduation Programs
Village Enterprise Representative Blogs on IPA Collaboration	Fighting poverty through entrepreneurship training
Devex on IPA's Right-Fit Monitoring and Evaluation Program	IPA Study on Female Garment Workers in Bangladesh Featured in The Financial Express
Finding Impact Podcast: Motivating Community Health Workers	Pros and cons of factory work, in new study from Ethiopia
Aiding women entrepreneurs in Uganda	FiveThirtyEight on IPA's microcredit research and why to trust data, not anecdotes
Moving Beyond Microcredit	From “Economic Man” to Behavioral Economics

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IPA and J-PAL Present at MIDIS's First AYNI Lab Workshop	Village Enterprise Impact Evaluation in Uganda: Alleviating Poverty with an Integrated Microenterprise Graduation Program (Kampala)
Village Enterprise Impact Evaluation in Uganda: Alleviating Poverty with an Integrated Microenterprise Graduation Program (Washington, DC)	Webinar: Women's Economic Empowerment through Financial Inclusion
IPA Philippines Presents Results to the Department of Social Welfare (DSWD)	IPA Philippines Presents Results to the Department of Social Welfare (DSWD)
Training, Cash or Microfranchising: What Works in Improving Youth Employment Outcomes	Lessons and Implications of the Latest Research on Credit
Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Initiative Explores Partnerships with Organizations in Mexico	Harvard Social Enterprise Conference
Impact and Policy Conference: Evidence in Governance, Financial Inclusion, and Entrepreneurship	Opportunity International Annual Board of Governors

Saving for Multiple Goals with Lockboxes in Malawi	Evaluating the Impact of Virtual Cooperatives on Microenterprises in Colombia
The Impact of Productive Assets and Training on Child Labor in the Philippines	Increasing Access to Clean Lighting and Promoting Female Entrepreneurship in Rwanda
What Generates Growth in Microenterprises? Evidence from Sri Lanka	Variations of Ultra-Poor Graduation Programming in Uganda
Facilitating Business Registration in Malawi	Graduating Micro‐Enterprises to SME‐Level Credit in Egypt
Boosting Firms’ Productivity in Mexico with Consulting Services	The Impact of Flexible Credit for Entrepreneurs in Colombia
Scaling Up an Entrepreneurial Model of Community Health Delivery in Uganda	The Impact of Bid Training on Small Firm Growth in Liberia
Leveraging Government Transfers to Offer Low-Risk Microcredit in the Dominican Republic	Rules of Thumb: Providing Timely Useful Financial Management Advice at Scale in India
Culture and Incentives: Does Performance Pay Impact Productivity, Work Quality, or Firm Profitability in Ghana?	Entrepreneur Well-Being and Firm Outcomes in Urban Bangladesh

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