When is capital enough to get female microenterprises growing? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana

Marcel Fafchamps, David McKenzie, Simon R. Quinn, Christopher Woodruff

NBER Working Paper No. 17207
Issued in July 2011

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We are grateful to Markus Mobius and conference and seminar participants at Auvergne, Bristol, the IPA Microfinance conference, Madrid, Michigan, Oxford, Paris, Stern (NYU), Tilburg, Leuven, the World Bank, and Microsoft Research, Cambridge for useful comments. The authors thank Caroline Kouassiaman for outstanding work as project coordinator, and Innovations for Poverty Action for their support on the ground. Financial support from the World Bank' Gender Action Plan and Research Budget is gratefully acknowledged. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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