En Argentina se han implementado, en los últimos años, un importante abanico de políticas de financiamiento público hacia las micro, pequeñas y medianas empresas. Sin embargo, hasta el momento, no se han realizado trabajos ...

This study evaluates the impacts of a business training program serving female microentrepreneurs in Lima that have previously benefited with the titling of their urban parcels. The intervention included personal development, ...

Este trabajo evalúa el impacto de una política orientada a promover la creación y desarrollo de emprendimientos innovadores en la ciudad de Buenos Aires. El programa recibe unos 100 proyectos por año, de los cuales selecciona ...

In this paper, we study the characteristics and growth dynamics of young businesses, and the contribution of these businesses to aggregate growth, in a developing economy: Colombia. Our study covers the 17 years between ...

This is a study of entrepreneurial ventures in Argentina, in particular regarding their finance and growth in their early years. We sample young manufacturing SMEs (i.e., with an average of six years and a maximum of ten ...

Despite the rapid expansion of microfinance services in the past several decades, the low use of formal credit exhibited by poor households, the high dropout rates experienced by many microfinance institutions, and the ...

This paper uses a dataset of a survey of Colombian micro firms from 2003 to 2007 in combination with data from publicly available sources about banking services supply at the municipality level, to assess the impact of the ...