Entrepreneurship Programs in Developing Countries: A Meta Regression Analysis

By Yoonyoung Cho, Maddalena Honorati. Social Science Research Network, 2013

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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. Overall, 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.

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Entrepreneurship Education and Entry into Self-Employment Among University Graduates (2016, methodology): “Second, we relate to a growing literature analyzing the effectiveness of entrepreneurship-support interventions, including programs providing a mix of capital and skills (for a review, see Cho & Honorati, 2014).”
Skills and Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa: Analysis with Evidence from Swaziland (2014, unknown): “It is noteworthy though that the positive impacts on both labor market and business outcomes were found to be significantly higher for youth than for adults (Cho and Honorati, 2014).”
Self-Employment in the Developing World (2012, background): “See Cho and Honorati (2013). Their analysis also finds that training”
Interventions to Improve the Labour Market Outcomes of Youth: A Systematic Review of Training, Entrepreneurship Promotion, Employment Services and Subsidized Employment Interventions (2017, background): “Reviews of entrepreneurship interventions, not focused on youth Cho and Honorati (2013) synthesized evidence from interventions aimed at promoting the development of micro-, small- and mediumsized enterprises in developing countries.”
Factors affecting the success of women’s entrepreneurship: a review of literature (2017, background): “(2013), Urbano and Turró (2013), Ezzedeen and Zikie (2012), Pettersson and Heldt (2014) and Clark (2013) also deal with.”
What Works? A Meta Analysis of Recent Active Labor Market Program Evaluations (2015, unknown): “Related meta analyses focusing on labor market interventions in low and middle income countries include Cho and Honorati (2014) and Grimm and Paffhausen (2015).”
Entrepreneurship Education and Training Programs around the World: Dimensions for Success (2014, unknown): “However, Cho and Honorati (2013) demonstrate that involving the private sector in the delivery of EET is more closely linked to better effects on the participants. This would suggest that governments’ role should also include public-private partnerships to provide EET more effectively. Additionally,”
Generating Employment in Poor and Fragile States: Evidence from Labor Market and Entrepreneurship Programs (2015, background): “35See Cho and Honorati (2014). 36Piffaretti (2015) 37CBT is a therapeutic approach used to treat a wide range of harmful beliefs and behaviors, including depression, anger, and impulsivity.”