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Purpose: In many developing and affluent countries, poverty alleviation has been the prime goal of promoting socioeconomic status. The Government's attempt to curb poverty includes promoting monetary-generation projects, providing facilities to raise the standard of living, and executing the...
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increase by 4.3% without women's restrictions to entrepreneurship and by 32.1% without restrictions to entry and … entrepreneurship. In addition, the southern states would witness the largest increases. …
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Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship. …
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context along a continuum of where entrepreneurship takes place and when this happens. Where context has been studied in … embeddedness of women entrepreneurs or the institutional environment for women's entrepreneurship. We contribute to the literature … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography …
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Failure of small businesses many times is because of poor implementation of long-term financial strategies. Women small business owners face many challenges in financing their small businesses because they may not have a financial plan. Interviews with 11 women small business owners in Cleveland...
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entrepreneurship varies in different parts of the world depending on the economic development of the region. However, the engagement of … entrepreneurship. …
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Studying women's entrepreneurial intentions is critical not only for encouraging women's entrepreneurship but also for …
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Most previous studies have found evidence at the aggregate level that female entrepreneurs underperform relative to their male counterparts. This study conducts a comprehensive test of this finding. The test is conducted on a large Swedish sample of 4200 entrepreneurs (405 females) with 1 to 20...
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male and female perceptions of typical entrepreneurship support services, such as government provision of information … suggest that existing support services are inadequate for promoting female entrepreneurship. Accordingly we discuss support … measures specifically designed for women entrepreneurs. -- entrepreneurship ; gender ; women entrepreneurs ; Africa …
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Women entrepreneurs are known not only to reimburse loans swifter than men, but also to receive smaller loans. However, on average women have smaller-scope business projects and are poorer than men. A deeper investigation is thus required in order to assess the existence of gender discrimination...
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