This paper analyzes data on female and male entrepreneurship that were collected by the World Bank Group …'s Entrepreneurship Database. Recognizing the importance of a differentiated approach to entrepreneurship in terms of legal entities, the …. Forty-four of the 143 economies that participated in the Entrepreneurship project provided some sex-disaggregated data for …

productivity of non-farm entrepreneurship. Except for Ethiopia, women are less likely than men to become nonfarm entrepreneurs …. Women's nonfarm entrepreneurship isn' t strongly correlated with household composition or educational attainment, but is …

associated with female entrepreneurship (that is, a firm being managed and at least partly owned by women), along with other … entrepreneurship rises with foreign direct investment inflow, lower entry barriers for women, women's better access to finance, higher … and female entrepreneurship is stronger for firms in the service sectors and small firms. The horizontal competition …