Exit, voice, and vouchers: Using vouchers to train microentrepreneurs - Observations from the Paraguayan voucher scheme

World Development

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 713-724

  Lepenies, Philipp H ^a  

^a KFW BANKENGRUPPE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Information asymmetries; Markets; Microentrepreneurs; Paraguay; Training; Voucher projects

Indexed keywords

ENTREPRENEUR; MICROENTERPRISE; TRAINING;

PARAGUAY; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 1842630280     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2003.10.006     Document Type: Article

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