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Detailed Information

Country	Country: Tanzania
GDP per capita	1.005
Context details	Women microentrepreneurs, mostly market and street vendors, operating their businesses in Tanzania
Age	average: 36.7

2. Intervention

Implementation year	2017
Implementer	Local
Duration (months)	3
Cost	N/A
Intervention details	Training on uses and benefits of savings accounts, after a few months users became eligible for instant short-term microloans

Evaluation design	Randomized evaluation
Cluster definition	N/A

Sample	Outcome	Test	Source Table	Observations	Statistics on Effects
Complete sample	Operation practices	Business practices score: 26 questions measuring practices in: Marketing, record keeping, buying and stock control and financial planning	7	2657	Coeff: 0.07; SE: 0.01

Study	Bastian, G., Bianchi, I., Goldstein, M., & Montalvao, J. (2018). Short-term impacts of improved access to mobile savings, with and without business training: Experimental evidence from Tanzania. Documents de travail, 478.