What (Business) Women Want - Employing Surveys to Expand Our Knowledge About the State of Female Entrepreneurship in MENA Region
Women's entrepreneurship is increasingly recognized as an important factor for economic growth and private sector development. Yet across the world, little quantitative information on female-owned businesses is available to inform policymakers...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/10/9890835/business-women-want-employing-surveys-expand-knowledge-state-female-entrepreneurship-mena-region http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10638 |
| Summary: | Women's entrepreneurship is
increasingly recognized as an important factor for economic
growth and private sector development. Yet across the world,
little quantitative information on female-owned businesses
is available to inform policymakers how to better support
them or to provide assistance to the rising number of
women's business associations that are looking to
better serve their membership base. In 2005, International
Finance Corporation (IFC) commissioned four country
assessments on the state of women's entrepreneurship in
Middle East and North Africa (MENA). These assessments
filled an important knowledge gap and drew attention from
female entrepreneurs, businesswomen's associations,
policymakers, donors, and the media alike. Subsequently, IFC
was approached by businesswomen's associations from
other MENA countries to conduct surveys there as well. The
request posed a challenge, as financing female
entrepreneurship surveys in all 19 countries covered by IFC
Private Enterprise Partnership (PEP)-MENA would not only be
financially challenging but also require tremendous
monitoring and supervision efforts. |
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