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What Works in Supporting Women-Led Businesses ?

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dc.contributor.authorUbfal, Diego
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-03T13:17:11Z
dc.date.available2024-04-03T13:17:11Z
dc.date.issued2024-04-03
dc.description.abstractInnovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to global challenges. However, they face multiple barriers to growing their businesses. This paper reviews the literature on strategies to support women entrepreneurs in improving their business outcomes. It focuses on interventions designed to address four areas of constraints that influence their decisions and can impact their business performance: gaps in human capital, access to finance, access to technology and markets, and contextual factors such as legal and regulatory constraints, social norms, access to care, and gender-based violence. The review concludes that evidence of modest average treatment effects and heterogeneity in treatment effects across various interventions suggest the need for more precise targeting. The multiple constraints faced by women entrepreneurs necessitates testing different packages of interventions. Moreover, the successful implementation and adoption of proposed solutions require consideration of the contextual constraints that differentially affect women-led businesses. While the review highlights several interventions that show promise in supporting women entrepreneurs, significant gaps remain in the evidence concerning the most effective strategies.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099546304022426807/IDU17db26e461485d14f2e187e91bbfa867e0f87
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-10744
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/41357
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper; 10744
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectENTREPRENEURSHIP
dc.subjectGENDER
dc.subjectLITERATURE REVIEW
dc.subjectWOMEN-LED BUSINESS
dc.subjectGENDER EQUALITY
dc.subjectSDG 5
dc.titleWhat Works in Supporting Women-Led Businesses ?en
dc.typeWorking Paper
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okr.associatedcontenthttps://reproducibility.worldbank.org/index.php/catalog/118 Link to data and reproducibility package
okr.crossref.titleWhat Works in Supporting Women-Led Businesses ?
okr.date.disclosure2024-04-03
okr.date.lastmodified2024-04-02T00:00:00Zen
okr.doctypePolicy Research Working Paper
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099546304022426807/IDU17db26e461485d14f2e187e91bbfa867e0f87
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okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-10744
okr.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-10744
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum34294377
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum34294377
okr.identifier.reportWPS10744
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okr.region.geographicalWorld
okr.topicGender::Gender and Economics
okr.topicPrivate Sector Development::Social Entrepreneurship and Business Clusters
okr.topicFinance and Financial Sector Development::Finance and Development
okr.unitGender Director (HGNDR)
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