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Supporting women entrepreneurs in Tunisia

Drine, Imed; Grach, Mouna - 2010

male and female perceptions of typical entrepreneurship support services, such as government provision of information … suggest that existing support services are inadequate for promoting female entrepreneurship. Accordingly we discuss support …

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The rise in women's labour force participation in Mexico: Supply vs demand factors

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernández, Manuel - 2021

We estimate the relative importance of alternative labour supply and demand mechanisms in explaining the rise of female labour force participation over the last 55 years in Mexico. The growth of female labour force participation in Mexico between 1960 and 2015 followed an S-shape, with a...

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The gendered crisis: Livelihoods and mental well-being in India during COVID-19

Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Roy, Sanchari - 2021

This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the gendered dimensions of employment and mental health among urban informal-sector workers in India. First, we find that men's employment declined by 84 percentage points post-pandemic relative to pre-pandemic, while their monthly earnings...

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Entrepreneurship, structural change and a global economic crisis

Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2010

Building on a Lewis-type model of structural change and entrepreneurship we show how a global economic crisis …

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Entrepreneurship, stages of development, and industrialization

Ács, Zoltan J.; Naudé, Wim - 2011

Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...

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Entrepreneurship and human development: A capability approach

Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2010

We provide a formal model of entrepreneurship in human development. The framework is provided by the capabilities … approach (CA). Hence we extend not only the conceptualisation of entrepreneurship in development, but the reach of the CA into … entrepreneurship. From a CA view, entrepreneurship is not only a production factor, or a means to an end, as is often taken to be the …

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Promoting women's economic empowerment through productive employment and social protection

Otobe, Naoko - 2014

The paper attempts to examine the extent to which the ILO-supported projects have contributed to women's economic empowerment and well-being i.e., from a gender perspective. The paper provides the ILO's perspectives on gender dimensions of employment promotion (involving income generation and...

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Breaking the metal ceiling: Female entrepreneurs who succeed in male-dominated sectors

Campos, Francisco; Goldstein, Markus; McGorman, Laura; … - 2017

entrepreneurship. Data on Uganda show that women breaking into male-dominated sectors make as much as men, and three times more than …

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Discrimination, social capital, and financial constraints: The case of Viet Nam

Pham, Tho; Talavera, Oleksandr - 2017

This paper examines the relationship between gender, social capital, and access to finance of micro, small, and medium enterprises in the manufacturing sector in Viet Nam. Our dataset is from the 2011, 2013, and 2015 waves of the Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Survey in Viet Nam. Using the...

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Explaining poverty evolution: The case of Mozambique

Arndt, Channing; Hussain, M. Azhar; Jones, E. Samuel; … - 2011

Measuring poverty remains a complex and contentious issue. This is particularly true in sub-Saharan Africa where poverty rates are higher, information bases typically weaker, and the underlying determinants of welfare relatively volatile. This paper employs recently collected data on household...

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