Is there a mindset gap holding women back in business? Can entrepreneurship training instill a set of attitudes … therefore may have a better understanding of the entrepreneurs' specific challenges. The study concludes that psychological …

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 …

Occupational sector selection is an important determinant of returns for female entrepreneurs. If sectors that are …'s relationships and networks, especially those provided through male relatives, and being opportunity-driven entrepreneurs appear to … challenges of encouraging female entrepreneurs to enter male-dominated sectors, in an effort to provide new insight into how the …

understanding of female entrepreneurship in Turkey by analyzing the patterns and characteristics of female entrepreneurs and … examining time trends in entrepreneurial activity. The data on entrepreneurs comes from data on employers and own account …-demographic characteristics such as education, marital status, number of children, and urban or rural location on gender gap in entrepreneurship …

implemented in Malawi through the "Financial Inclusion and Entrepreneurship Scaling" project …

enterprise (SME) lending markets. The findings of this report have several policy implications. This report identifies a number … of areas where relevant regulations and institutional frameworks may impede competition in GCC SME lending markets, and … competition in the GCC's SME lending markets proceeds as follows: Chapter 2 presents the SME banking markets in the GCC by …

Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest rate of entrepreneurship in the world, with approximately 42 percent of the non …-agricultural labor force classified as self-employed or employers. Yet most entrepreneurs are unable to grow their businesses beyond …, seeks to focus attention on the challenges that Africa's women entrepreneurs face and identify practical solutions. The …

In October 2012, the Government of Ethiopia launched the Women Entrepreneurship Development Project (WEDP), with the …-owned by women entrepreneurs in Ethiopia. In doing so, it created the first ever women-entrepreneur focused line of credit in …

Entrepreneurs that voluntarily choose to start a business because they are able to identify a good business opportunity … and act on it-opportunity entrepreneurs-might be different along various dimensions from those who are forced to become … entrepreneurs because of lack of other alternatives-necessity entrepreneurs. To provide evidence on these differences, this paper …

facilitating finance for women small and medium enterprise (SME) entrepreneurs. Various stakeholders were interviewed during the … survey which included 500 women SME entrepreneurs, women centric business associations, relevant government organizations as … well as other associated institutions. Given the lack of gender based assessments in access to credit for women SME …