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Women and Economic Development : Women Entrepreneurship Situation in Haiti

Mauconduit, Nedjée - 2014

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...

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Avoiding the housewife stigma : self-employment as a female career choice

Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Henrekson, Magnus - 2018

This paper investigates career choices of women who marry high-income men. We find that women married to men in the top of the income distribution are more likely to enter self-employment, which is also associated with a lower income. This can be interpreted as a career choice that produces a...

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Enterprising women in Southern Africa : when does land ownership matter?

Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry; Tregenna, Fiona - 2020

Limited access to finance is one of the major barriers for women entrepreneurs in Africa. This paper presents a model of start-ups in which firms' sales and profits depend on their productivity and access to credit. However, due to the lack of collateral assets such as land, female entrepreneurs...

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Enterprising women in Southern Africa : when does land ownership matter?

Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry; Tregenna, Fiona - 2020

Limited access to finance is one of the major barriers for women entrepreneurs in Africa. This paper presents a model of start-ups in which firms’ sales and profits depend on their productivity and access to credit. However, due to the lack of collateral assets such as land, female...

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Why Women Enter into Entrepreneurship? An Emerging Conceptual Framework Based on the Peruvian Case

Avolio, Beatrice - In: Journal of Women's Entrepreneurship and Education (2012), pp. 43-63

. The research identified six profiles according to the different routes by which women choose entrepreneurship: Young Women …

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Women Entrepreneurs in Modern Era – Opportunities, Trends and Challenges

B., Kavitha; Hans, V. Basil - 2018

Modern business is witnessing robust activity and innovations in two areas – entrepreneurship and human resource … management (HRM) and the two are not necessarily separate. Entrepreneurship is being redefined. With qualitative changes in … entrepreneurship is considered a lucrative leverage to acquire a level playing field for women, in a male predominant society and …

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Race and Gender in Entrepreneurial Finance

Ewens, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

underrepresented founders. The article ends with an extensive set of research ideas motivated by the gaps in the entrepreneurship …

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Women and female entrepreneurship : past, present, and future trends in developing countries

Fauzi, Muhammad Ashraf; Noraina Mazuin Sapuan; … - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 11 (2023) 3, pp. 57-75

's entrepreneurship in developing and emerging countries based on bibliometric analysis. Women entrepreneurs play a pivotal role in … development of women's entrepreneurship, 3) challenges among women entrepreneurs in developing countries, and 4) progress in women …'s entrepreneurship studies. Subsequently, four themes were discovered in the co-word analysis: 1) innovation in women's entrepreneurship …

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Women entrepreneurship development in Kosovo : challenges and opportunities

Jusaj, Yvesa; Abazi-Alili, Hyrije - In: Proceedings of the ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch … 8 (2022) 1, pp. 212-224

Business leadership by women is a special challenge in Kosovo, as, until the 90s, it was almost taboo. In this context, from 2000 onwards in Kosovo, there have been many businesses run by businesswomen, which is a great contribution to the emancipation of modern society. Women's businesses in...

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Entrepreneurial Program for Women : An Evaluative Study on ASA and BRAC

Shamsuddoha, Mohammad - 2009

In Bangladesh, women are about half of the total population and most of them are dependent on family head such as husband, elder son or daughter. Recognizing this fact, Government has changed its policy regarding women and has acknowledged the fact that equal participation of women in the...

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