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Political reservations and women's entrepreneurship in India

Ghani, Ejaz - In: Journal of development economics 108 (2014), pp. 138-153

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Challenges of change : an experiment training women to manage in the Bangladeshi garment sector

Macchiavello, Rocco; Menzel, Andreas; Rabbani, Atonu; … - 2015

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When is Capital Enough to get Female Enterprises Growing : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Ghana

Fafchamps, Marcel - 2011

Standard models of investment predict that credit-constrained firms should grow rapidly when given additional capital, and that how this capital is provided should not affect decisions to invest in the business or consume the capital. The authors randomly gave cash and in-kind grants to male-...

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What Explains Big Gender Disparities in India? : Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship

Ghani, Ejaz - 2012

Despite rapid economic growth, gender disparities in women's economic participation have remained deep and persistent … in India. What explains these huge gender disparities? Is it poor infrastructure, limited education, and gender … related industries (similar labor needs, input-output markets) predicts greater relative female entry rates. Gender networks …

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Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India

Ghani, Ejaz - 2013

This paper quantifies the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. It does not find evidence that overall employment of women in manufacturing increased after the reforms. However,...

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Female Business Ownership and Informal Sector Persistence

Ghani, Ejaz - 2013

The informal sector in India has been exceptionally persistent over the past two decades. Is this a bad thing? Not necessarily. This paper shows that a substantial share of the persistence in India's unorganized manufacturing sector is due to the rapid increase in female-owned businesses. Had...

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When is capital enough to get female enterprises growing? : evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana

Fafchamps, Marcel; McKenzie, David J.; Quinn, Simon; … - 2011

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Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics : experimental evidence from Sri Lanka

De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012

We conduct a randomized experiment in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business (SIYB) program. In contrast to existing business training evaluations which are restricted to microfinance...

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What explains big gender disparities in India? : local industrial structures and female entrepreneurship

Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O'Connell, Stephen D. - 2012

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When is capital enough to get female microenterprises growing? : evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana

Fafchamps, Marcel; McKenzie, David J.; Quinn, Simon; … - 2011

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