Why is More Capital not Enough to Grow Female Businesses?

The fourth in impact series follows up on the first impact note, which presented the puzzling finding that the average female-owned microenterprise in Sri Lanka had no gain in profit from grants. This note presents the results of new research desig...

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Main Author: McKenzie, David
Format: Brief
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/04/12091237/more-capital-not-enough-grow-female-businesses
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spelling okr-10986-102572021-04-23T14:02:49Z Why is More Capital not Enough to Grow Female Businesses? McKenzie, David ECONOMICS EMPOWERMENT EQUIPMENT FEMALE FEMALES GENDER GENDER DIFFERENCE GENDER DIFFERENCES INCOMES INSURANCE INVENTORIES LIQUID ASSETS MICROENTERPRISES MICROFINANCE NGOS RETURN RETURNS RISK AVERSION WILL The fourth in impact series follows up on the first impact note, which presented the puzzling finding that the average female-owned microenterprise in Sri Lanka had no gain in profit from grants. This note presents the results of new research designed to understand why. 2012-08-13T10:52:23Z 2012-08-13T10:52:23Z 2009-04 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/04/12091237/more-capital-not-enough-grow-female-businesses http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10257 English Finance & PSD Impact; No. 4 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Brief Publications & Research South Asia Sri Lanka
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topic ECONOMICS
EMPOWERMENT
EQUIPMENT
FEMALE
FEMALES
GENDER
GENDER DIFFERENCE
GENDER DIFFERENCES
INCOMES
INSURANCE
INVENTORIES
LIQUID ASSETS
MICROENTERPRISES
MICROFINANCE
NGOS
RETURN
RETURNS
RISK AVERSION
WILL
spellingShingle ECONOMICS
EMPOWERMENT
EQUIPMENT
FEMALE
FEMALES
GENDER
GENDER DIFFERENCE
GENDER DIFFERENCES
INCOMES
INSURANCE
INVENTORIES
LIQUID ASSETS
MICROENTERPRISES
MICROFINANCE
NGOS
RETURN
RETURNS
RISK AVERSION
WILL
McKenzie, David
Why is More Capital not Enough to Grow Female Businesses?
geographic_facet South Asia
Sri Lanka
relation Finance & PSD Impact; No. 4
description The fourth in impact series follows up on the first impact note, which presented the puzzling finding that the average female-owned microenterprise in Sri Lanka had no gain in profit from grants. This note presents the results of new research designed to understand why.
format Publications & Research :: Brief
author McKenzie, David
author_facet McKenzie, David
author_sort McKenzie, David
title Why is More Capital not Enough to Grow Female Businesses?
title_short Why is More Capital not Enough to Grow Female Businesses?
title_full Why is More Capital not Enough to Grow Female Businesses?
title_fullStr Why is More Capital not Enough to Grow Female Businesses?
title_full_unstemmed Why is More Capital not Enough to Grow Female Businesses?
title_sort why is more capital not enough to grow female businesses?
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2012
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/04/12091237/more-capital-not-enough-grow-female-businesses
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10257
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