to underline the positive corollary existing between the targeting of women by microfinance programs, on the one hand …The present paper aims to adduce succinctly the reasons and arguments sustaining female-targeting microfinance programs … microfinance, through stressing its economical and social dimensions and consequences - while contributing to enhance the holistic …

postulates recent budget proposals to enhance SME performances in Sri Lanka. …

ability of UK women-owned firms to obtain external finance. In this paper we use an econometric approach to explore the effect … Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) UK 2004 database. Standardising for a range of individual characteristics, we find that women are around … barriers are linked negatively to the start-up decision, stronger perceptions of financial barriers among women are having a …

empowerment of women. Therefore, this paper, applying primarily qualitative methodology, attempts an investigation of the … phones was certainly empowering for the women: mobile phones unequivocally strengthened and expanded their social circle and … attitudes towards women as technophobic luddites; it reduced their information poverty, enabling and facilitating access to …