This paper contributes to closing a knowledge gap on gender, entrepreneurship and development by linking the … confirmed the importance of start-up capital for sales. Women entrepreneurs have smaller start-up capital and are less likely to …, business training is positively associated with sales performance of men entrepreneurs, but has no effect on women. However …

non-cognitive skills, with gender gaps in entrepreneurial performance in Africa. We have found that while financial … literacy training directly benefits men, it does not raise the sales level of women entrepreneurs. Instead, tertiary education … has a direct positive link with the performance of women. Consistent with our theoretical model where different skills are …

Limited access to finance is one of the major barriers for women entrepreneurs in Africa. This paper presents a model … economies would benefit from removing obstacles to women's land tenure and enabling financial institutions to lend against …

goal of ending extreme poverty remains paramount. Globally, the World Bank set goals to end extreme poverty by 2030 and to …, eliminating poverty by 2030 is out of the region's reach. Even under our 'best case' scenario of accelerated growth and … redistribution from the richest 10 percent to the poorest 40 percent of the population, the poverty rate would still be around 10 …

the global financial crisis had a less negative impact on women than it had on men. Both unadjusted and unexplained gender …Persistent gender gaps characterize labor markets in many African countries. Utilizing Eswatini's first three labor … market surveys (conducted in 2007, 2010, and 2013), this paper provides first systematic evidence on the country's gender …

This paper examines gender differences in entrepreneurial performance and their links with start-up capital utilizing a … genders with higher start-up capital record better sales performance than those with smaller amounts of capital. For women … countries, women entrepreneurs in Swaziland have smaller start-up capital and are less likely to fund it from formal sources …

In this paper we provide first systematic evidence on the gender disparities in the labor market in Swaziland, drawing … a less severe effect on the labor market outcomes of women than those of men, women continue to have lower employment … and labor force participation rates. Utilizing the Heckman probit selection model shows that while women account for a …