Provides an overview of the situation of women micro and small entrepreneurs against a back drop of the four countries' economic conditions and the gender based socio-cultural, legal and political systems in place in these countries.

A variety of methodologies have been employed to examine the impact of the 1997 Asian financial crisis on the crisis-affected countries economies. However, the impact of crisis on the efficiency of the financial industry has yet to be studied. By employing the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)...