Low-income households form a significant portion of the Malaysian population. To improve the socio-economic condition of low-income households, development organizations in Malaysia offer a wide range of development trainings, discussions and group or center meetings. This study aims to examine the impact of enterprise development training programs on entrepreneurial competencies among Peninsular Malaysia microentrepreneurs.,Adopting a cross-sectional design, the authors collected data from 300 randomly selected microentrepreneurs from the list of microentrepreneurs provided by eKasih (the National Poverty Data Bank), across four states of Peninsular Malaysia. Quantitative data were collected through structured interviews with the respondents from October to November 2017.,The findings revealed that enterprise development training programs significantly affected three of six entrepreneurial competencies (i.e. opportunity recognition competency, organizing competency and relationship competency). These findings highlight the importance of enterprise development training programs towards microentrepreneurs in increasing their competencies.,Through its insights, the study enriches the understanding of low-income communities in emerging economies, while offering significant practical implications. Based on findings, it is recommended that development organizations should therefore continue the current microenterprise development training programs. With improved entrepreneurial competencies, microentrepreneurs can thrive amidst competition yet sustaining business performance.

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马来西亚低收入家庭的微型企业发展培训和创业能力

低收入家庭占马来西亚人口的很大一部分。为了改善低收入家庭的社会经济状况，马来西亚的发展组织提供了广泛的发展培训，讨论和小组或中心会议。这项研究旨在检验企业发展培训计划对马来西亚半岛微型企业家之间创业能力的影响。通过采用横断面设计，作者从eKasih提供的微型企业家列表（国家贫困数据）中收集了300个随机选择的微型企业家的数据。银行），遍及马来西亚半岛四个州。通过与受访者进行结构化访谈收集了2017年10月至2017年11月的定量数据。调查结果表明，企业发展培训计划严重影响了六个企业家能力中的三个（即机会识别能力，组织能力和关系能力）。这些发现凸显了企业发展培训计划对提高微型企业家能力的重要性。通过其洞察力，该研究丰富了新兴经济体中低收入社区的理解，同时提供了重要的实际意义。根据调查结果，建议开发组织因此应继续当前的微型企业开发培训计划。随着企业家能力的提高，微型企业家可以在竞争中壮成长，并保持业务绩效。