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Women Entrepreneurs in Indonesia : A Pathway to Increasing Shared Prosperity

World Bank Group - 2016

increase, unprecedented numbers of women are entering the world of business and entrepreneurship. The number of women …

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Gender-Informed Public-Private Dialogue : Practical Note on Inclusion of Women Entrepreneurs' Voices

Herzberg, Benjamin - 2016

This practical notes series is devised as a how-to guide that captures the evolution of Public Private Dialogues (PPD) and the challenges faced by practitioners since the first PPD handbook was published in 2006. It considers the varied and evolving forms of PPD, the contexts in which PPD is...

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Women's Entrepreneurship : How to Measure the Gap between New Female and Male Entrepreneurs?

Meunier, Frederic - 2017

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 …

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Crossovers : Female Entrepreneurs Who Enter Male Sectors: Evidence from Ethiopia

Alibhai, Salman - 2017

Occupational sector selection is an important determinant of returns for female entrepreneurs. If sectors that are traditionally male owned could provide an opportunity to earn higher returns, then what factors could encourage women to cross over into these sectors or prevent them from doing so?...

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Female Entrepreneurship in Turkey : Patterns, Characteristics, and Trends

Okten, Cagla - 2015

understanding of female entrepreneurship in Turkey by analyzing the patterns and characteristics of female entrepreneurs and …-demographic characteristics such as education, marital status, number of children, and urban or rural location on gender gap in entrepreneurship … children increases the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Perhaps surprisingly, living in an urban area also increases the gender …

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Increasing the Participation of Women Entrepreneurs in the Solomon Islands Aid Economy

World Bank - 2011

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Sustainable Support System for Rural Women Entrepreneurs : Ethiopia

Sawada, Naotaka - 2011

Nonfarm sector development in rural Ethiopia is central to generating employment and income and thereby reducing poverty. The improved investment climate could facilitate investments in farm and nonfarm sectors by contributing directly and indirectly to the generation of additional employment...

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Voices of Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania

International Finance Corporation - 2007

The Government of Tanzania is committed to supporting women entrepreneurs with both policy and practical support. The Government of Tanzania has made impressive strides in supporting women entrepreneurs, and its policies reflect a commitment to advancing women. The Ministry of Industry, Trade,...

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Full esteem ahead? : mindset-oriented business training in Ethiopia

Alibhai, Salman; Buehren, Niklas; Frese, Michael; … - 2019

Is there a mindset gap holding women back in business? Can entrepreneurship training instill a set of attitudes …

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Tackling the global profitarchy : gender and the choice of business sector

Goldstein, Markus P.; Gonzalez Martinez, Paula; … - 2019

Sectoral segregation is often used to explain a large part of a well-documented gender earnings gap in business profits. Women tend to sort into different sectors than men, and the sectors dominated by women tend to be less profitable. This paper investigates the horizontal dimension of sectoral...

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