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What Works in Supporting Women-led Businesses?

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2023-01
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2023-01
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The narrative among policymakers about women’s entrepreneurship is slowly shifting from encouraging the creation of a high number of startups to focusing on supporting women who are well positioned to lead growth-oriented enterprises. Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and provide new solutions to global challenges, yet they face multiple barriers to growing their businesses. This policy brief examines the following four areas of constraints and provides evidence on measures to reduce gender gaps in each: 1. Human capital, including gender gaps in access to skills and networks 2. Factors constraining access to finance 3. Factors constraining technology uptake and market expansion, and 4. Contextual factors, including legal and regulatory constraints, social norms, access to care, and gender-based violence.
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Ubfal, Diego Javier. 2023. What Works in Supporting Women-led Businesses?. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/38564 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.
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