in Eswatini, a country with one of the highest female unemployment rates in Africa. The paper first shows that higher … initial capital is associated with better sales performance for both men and women entrepreneurs. Women entrepreneurs start … size of their firm and sales level. However, women with higher education start their firms with more capital than their …

This paper analyzes the role of networks in access of women entrepreneurs to start-up capital and firm performance in … Eswatini, a country with one of the highest female unemployment rates in Africa. The paper first shows that higher initial … capital is associated with better sales performance for both men and women entrepreneurs. Women entrepreneurs start their …

non-cognitive skills, with gender gaps in entrepreneurial performance in Africa. We have found that while financial … literacy training directly benefits men, it does not raise the sales level of women entrepreneurs. Instead, tertiary education … has a direct positive link with the performance of women. Consistent with our theoretical model where different skills are …

genders with higher start-up capital record better sales performance than those with smaller amounts of capital. For women … countries, women entrepreneurs in Swaziland have smaller start-up capital and are less likely to fund it from formal sources … than men. Among women entrepreneurs, those with college education and confident in their skills tend to start their firms …

non-cognitive skills, with gender gaps in entrepreneurial performance in Africa. We have found that while financial … literacy training directly benefits men, it does not raise the sales level of women entrepreneurs. Instead, tertiary education … has a direct positive link with the performance of women. Consistent with our theoretical model where different skills are …

genders with higher start-up capital record better sales performance than those with smaller amounts of capital. For women … countries, women entrepreneurs in Swaziland have smaller start-up capital and are less likely to fund it from formal sources … than men. Among women entrepreneurs, those with college education and confident in their skills tend to start their firms …

confirmed the importance of start-up capital for sales. Women entrepreneurs have smaller start-up capital and are less likely to …, business training is positively associated with sales performance of men entrepreneurs, but has no effect on women. However …, this does not call for abolishing training programs for women entrepreneurs. Instead their design and targeting should be …

Limited access to finance is one of the major barriers for women entrepreneurs in Africa. This paper presents a model … economies would benefit from removing obstacles to women’s land tenure and enabling financial institutions to lend against …

Limited access to finance is one of the major barriers for women entrepreneurs in Africa. This paper presents a model … economies would benefit from removing obstacles to women's land tenure and enabling financial institutions to lend against …