measures specifically designed for women entrepreneurs. -- entrepreneurship ; gender ; women entrepreneurs ; Africa …Whether policy support should be designed differently for women entrepreneurs is a particularly relevant question. To … answer this, and to inform the design of policies to provide appropriate support for women entrepreneurs, the paper compares …

entrepreneurship. Data on Uganda show that women breaking into male-dominated sectors make as much as men, and three times more than … women staying in female-dominated sectors. Factors including entrepreneurial skill/abilities and credit/human capital … constraints do not explain women's sectoral choices. However, information about profitability, male role models' influence, and …

,181 households, we examine how the welfare of women living in rural areas has evolved during a period of dramatic rural … transformation, 2008 - 14. We find that while the economic situation of women has improved, significant gender disparities remain …, particularly for female-headed households. Women continue to bear a greater burden of responsibility for income …

Entrepreneurship is generally regarded as a force of change, innovation, and development in modern economies …. Entrepreneurs bring new and better products to markets, restore allocative efficiency through arbitrage and reinvest their profits … without creating incentives for destructive entrepreneurship. -- destructive entrepreneurship ; allocation of talent …

We study gender differences in bilateral bargaining using an artefactual field experiment in rural Uganda, through …, women tend to demand less than men in the same situation. The influence of beliefs on demands is stronger for men than for … women, and this difference is larger under anonymity than when identities are disclosed. These results identify important …

entrepreneurship. These are the special issue of the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (2011) and the special issue of the … Journal of Conflict Resolution (2013), devoted to the impact of violent conflict on entrepreneurship in developing countries …. In the overview we start by defining entrepreneurship and conflict, and provide a succinct summary of the existing …

effect of the conflict on entrepreneurship is very small. The results on the control variables suggest that (i) the … generation of entrepreneurship has seen conflict and instability for a whole life,( ii) a small business is a mean of surviving … a priority for internationally supported reconstruction. -- entrepreneurship ; conflict ; Afghanistan ; national risk …

particularly at the unbanked, under-banked, and women. We find strong empirical evidence supporting the crucial role of financial … access in promoting entrepreneurship among informal sector firms in India. Our results are robust to alternative …-in-differences. However, we do not find conclusive evidence that increased financial inclusion leads to a higher likelihood of women becoming …

This paper aims towards better understanding the role of entrepreneurship in fragile states, which despite the … formulation with appropriate and relevant measurement of entrepreneurship and the business environment, the primary focus in this … entrepreneurship in fragile state. -- entrepreneurship ; development ; fragile states ; institutions ; business ; environment …