Publication: Never Too Young to Dream Big: Measuring Youth Aspirations in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic
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This paper links the literatures on technical assistance and access to finance by examining a Mexican program that provided capacity-building grants to nonbank financial institutions (NBFIs) serving micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs). Using ten years of data from 81 credit unions and a staggered difference-in-differences approach, the analysis shows that the program improved NBFIs’ efficiency, enabling them to obtain more funding from private sources and leading to a 79 percent increase in lending. The findings suggest that technical assistance initiatives can strengthen NBFIs’ ability to expand credit access for underserved MSMEs.
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“Costa, Valentina; Contreras, Ivette; Palacios-Lopez, Amparo. 2024. Never Too Young to Dream Big: Measuring Youth Aspirations in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Policy Research Working Paper; 10816. © World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/41779 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”
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