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Microfinance institutions and female entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa : avoidable female unemployment thresholds

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2023

The present study contributes to the extant literature by assessing how microfinance institutions (MFIs) affect female entrepreneurship, contingent on female unemployment levels. The study focuses on 44 countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) for the period 2004 to 2018. The empirical evidence is...

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Openness, ICT and Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice - 2018

This study has examined how information and communication technology (ICT) influences openness to improve the conditions of doing business in sub-Saharan Africa. The data is for the period 2000-2012. ICT is proxied with Internet and mobile phone penetration rates whereas openness is measured in...

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Openness, ICT and entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2017

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Cultures of female entrepreneurship

Foreman-Peck, James S.; Zhou, Peng - 2014

testable hypotheses about the gender effects of entrepreneurial culture. The principal hypothesis is that there is a greater … different entrepreneurial cultures show greater similarity of behaviour (lower variance) than men. But proportionate gender gaps …

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Gender and Constraints to Entrepreneurship in Africa : New Evidence from Swaziland

Brixiova, Zuzana - 2015

This paper contributes to closing a knowledge gap on gender, entrepreneurship and development by linking the …

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Gender and rural entrepreneurship in digitizing sub-Saharan Africa

Rutashobya, Lettice Kinunda; Chiwona-Karltun, Linley; … - In: Business in Africa in the era of digital technology : …, (pp. 63-84). 2021

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Women Entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa : Historical Framework, Ecosystem, and Future Perspectives for the Region

Dabić, Marina (ed.); Dana, Leo Paul (ed.); … - 2022

Women Entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Overview -- Women Entrepreneurs in Cameroon -- Women Entrepreneurs in Ethiopia -- Women Entrepreneurs in Ghana -- Women Entrepreneurs in Kenya -- Women Entrepreneurs in Lesotho -- Women Entrepreneurs in Namibia -- Women Entrepreneurs in Nigeria --...