employment and expanding social protection during the last 10-15 years, in particular, largely targeting those poor women mostly …The paper attempts to examine the extent to which the ILO-supported projects have contributed to women's economic … employment promotion (involving income generation and small enterprise and co-operative development, public investment for job …

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 …

In the face of a labor market that is unable to absorb a growing demand, entrepreneurship and self-employment is an … path. Indeed, the Association of Women Entrepreneurs (AFEM) estimates that the number of women entrepreneurs does not … exceed 10,000, which represents barely 0.5% of women's employment in the formal sector and about 10% of the number total …

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 …