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Detailed Information

Country	Country: Tanzania
GDP per capita	743
Context details	Self-employed businesses managers producing garment products in Tanzania that volunteered to participate
Age	average: 44.5

2. Intervention

Implementation year	2010
Implementer	International, Local
Duration (months)	3
Cost	N/A
Intervention details	basic knowledge of Kaizen and covered the standard content of the SYIB training in entrepreneurship, marketing, record keeping, and accounting, provide more live feedback

Evaluation design	Randomized evaluation
Cluster definition	N/A

Sample	Outcome	Test	Source Table	Observations	Statistics on Effects
Complete sample	Operation practices	Marketing score (0-4)	3	175	Coeff: 1.37; SE: 0.30
Complete sample	Record keeping	Record keeping (0-4)	3	175	Coeff: 0.82; SE: 0.21
Complete sample	Soft skills	Sales promotion (0-4)	3	175	Coeff: 0.77; SE: 0.29

Study	Higuchi, Y., Mhede, E.P. and Sonobe, T., 2019. Short-and medium-run impacts of management training: An experiment in Tanzania. World Development, 114, pp.220-236.