Supporting Women-Led Businesses: Narrative Review of Recent Causal Evidence

D Ubfal - The World Bank Research Observer, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to
global challenges. However, they face multiple barriers to growing their businesses. I review …

Digital Training for Micro-Entrepreneurs: Experimental Evidence from Guatemala

A Estefan, M Improta, R Ordoñez… - The World Bank …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Previous literature shows minor impacts of in-person business training in developing
countries, but few papers study the effectiveness of digital training. A research partnership …

The Value of Information in Competitive Markets: Evidence from Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

JE Galdon-Sanchez, R Gil… - Journal of Political …, 2025 - journals.uchicago.edu
We empirically investigate how the performance of small and medium-sized enterprises
(SMEs) changes when gaining access to market information. To do so, we evaluate the …

[PDF][PDF] Testing the Promise of Digital Scaling

R Cassidy, M Ebrahim, D Ubfal - 2024 - documents1.worldbank.org
Business training has long been a staple tool in development policy, aimed at alleviating
human capital constraints among entrepreneurs. Annually, at least USD 1 billion is allocated …

The Value of Information in Competitive Markets: Evidence from Small and Medium Enterprises

JE Galdon-Sanchez, R Gil… - Available at SSRN …, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
In this paper, we empirically investigate how the performance and decision-making of small
and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) change when gaining access to strategically …