Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics: Experimental evidence from Sri Lanka
Journal of Development EconomicsPublished 26 September 2013
Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff
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10.1016/j.jdeveco.2013.09.005
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Social SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
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