Teaching personal initiative beats traditional training in boosting small business in West Africa

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Standard business training programs aim to boost the incomes of the millions of self-employed business owners in developing countries by teaching basic financial and marketing practices, yet the impacts of such programs are mixed. We tested whether a psychology-based personal initiative training approach, which teaches a proactive mindset and focuses on entrepreneurial behaviors, could have more success. A randomized controlled trial in Togo assigned microenterprise owners to a control group (n = 500), a leading business training program (n = 500), or a personal initiative training program (n = 500). Four follow-up surveys tracked outcomes for firms over 2 years and showed that personal initiative training increased firm profits by 30%, compared with a statistically insignificant 11% for traditional training. The training is cost-effective, paying for itself within 1 year.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftScience
Jahrgang357
Ausgabenummer6357
Seiten (von - bis)1287-1290
Anzahl der Seiten4
ISSN0036-8075
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PublikationsstatusErschienen - 22.09.2017

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