Women's role in economic development is commonly admitted. But in many countries, women's economic activities are still … an extension of historical domestic occupation. In this article, we analyze the Haitian women entrepreneurial situation … and show that women empowerment currently claimed by many actors is more romantic than economically pragmatic since women …

We develop a framework for quantifying barriers to labor force participation (LFP) and entrepreneurship faced by women … women entrepreneurs. However, there is one area in which female entrepreneurs have an advantage: the hiring of female …. Counterfactual simulations indicate that removing all excess barriers faced by women entrepreneurs would substantially increase the …