encouraging women’s entrepreneurship. Hence, this paper not only examines empowerment, which women are attaining from microfinance …In developing countries, women’s empowerment is a major concern. Several efforts were made to tackle this issue as the … aims of poverty reduction and development cannot be achieved without giving attention to women’s empowerment. Over the past …

by men and by women in Vietnam during the period 2005-2013 and aims to provide explanations for the differences, if any …, labor productivity and employment creation. We found that men led MSMEs did not outperform those led by women on average … sector where women tend to lead medium-size firms with higher value added and labor productivity. The performance disparity …