Complementing Business Training with Access to Finance: Evidence from SMEs in Kenya
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- Anik Ashraf & Elizabeth Lyons, 2023. "Complementing Business Training with Access to Finance: Evidence from SMEs in Kenya," Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series 416, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition.
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business training; access to finance;JEL classification:
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship
- M53 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Training
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BAN-2023-09-25 (Banking)
- NEP-CFN-2023-09-25 (Corporate Finance)
- NEP-ENT-2023-09-25 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-MFD-2023-09-25 (Microfinance)
- NEP-SBM-2023-09-25 (Small Business Management)
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