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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 …'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 …
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Women's Entrepreneurship : How to Measure the Gap between New Female and Male Entrepreneurs?
Meunier, Frédéric - 2017
proprietorships are more frequently used by female entrepreneurs, only three economies have similar or equal number of women business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943405
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Opportunity Versus Necessity : Understanding the Heterogeneity of Female Micro-Entrepreneurs
Calderon, Gabriela - 2017
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 …
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Promoting Women's Economic Empowerment : What Works?
Buvinic, Mayra - 2017
A review of rigorous evaluations of interventions that seek to empower women economically shows that the same class of interventions has significantly different outcomes depending on the client. Capital alone, as a small cash loan or grant, is not sufficient to grow women-owned subsistence-level...
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The Sooner, the Better : The Early Economic Impact of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2020
The size of the economic shocks triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic and the effects of the associated non-pharmaceutical interventions have not been fully assessed, because the official economic indicators have not been published. This paper provides estimates of the economic impacts of the...
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Covid-19 and Food Protectionism : The Impact of the Pandemic and Export Restrictions on World Food Markets
Espitia, Alvaro - 2020
This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the initial shock due to the pandemic under the assumption that products that are more labor intensive in production are more affected through workers' morbidity and containment...
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Lost Wages : The COVID-19 Cost of School Closures
Psacharopoulos, George - 2020
Social distancing requirements associated with COVID-19 (coronavirus) have led to school closures. In mid-April, the …
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Financing Firms in Hibernation During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Didier, Tatiana - 2020
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has halted economic activity worldwide, hurting firms and pushing them toward …
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The Potential Impact of COVID-19 on GDP and Trade : A Preliminary Assessment
Maliszewska, Maryla - 2020
The virus that triggered a localized shock in China is now delivering a significant global shock. This study simulates the potential impact of COVID-19 on gross domestic product and trade, using a standard global computable general equilibrium model. It models the shock as underutilization of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837348
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Winners and Losers from COVID-19 : Global Evidence from Google Search
Abay, Kibrom A. - 2020
As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc across the world, researchers are attempting to quantify the economic fallout from the pandemic as it continues to unfold. Estimating the economic impacts of a prevailing pandemic is fraught with uncertainties about the epidemiology of the disease and the...
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