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Detailed Information

Country	Country: Sri Lanka
GDP per capita	2.090
Context details	Female current and potential owners of businesses in the two largest urban areas in Sri Lanka that volunteered to participate
Age	average: 37.71

2. Intervention

Implementation year	2009
Implementer	Local
Duration (months)	2
Cost	N/A
Intervention details	Business development and planning, selection of products and pricing, organization of staff, financial planning, marketing, costing, stock control, record keeping

Evaluation design	Randomized evaluation
Cluster definition	N/A

Sample	Outcome	Test	Source Table	Observations	Statistics on Effects
Complete sample	Survival	Business closure	4	413	Coeff: -0.02; SE: 0.04; YcPost: 0.15

Study	De Mel, S., McKenzie, D., & Woodruff, C. (2014). Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics: Experimental evidence from Sri Lanka. Journal of Development Economics, 106, 199-210.