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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okr-10986-106382021-04-23T14:02:51Z What (Business) Women Want - Employing Surveys to Expand Our Knowledge About the State of Female Entrepreneurship in MENA Region Niethammer, Carmen Gharbi, Hela ACCESS TO FINANCE ADVISORY SERVICES BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS BUSINESS ENABLING BUSINESS ENABLING ENVIRONMENT BUSINESS INFORMATION BUSINESSES BUSINESSWOMEN CAPACITY BUILDING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMICS ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT EXPORT DEVELOPMENT EXPORT MARKET EXPORT MARKETS FEMALE FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS FEMALE ENTREPRENEURSHIP FEMALE POPULATION GENDER GENDER DIMENSION GENDER IMBALANCES HANDICRAFTS LOAN MARKET ACCESS MEDIUM ENTERPRISES MIDDLE EAST NETWORK OF WOMEN NEWSLETTER OUTREACH PRESSURE GROUP PRIVATE SECTOR PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONAL WOMEN RESULT RESULTS SUPERVISION TIME ZONES TRAINING WORKSHOP TRAINING WORKSHOPS USAID WOMEN BUSINESS OWNER WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS 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. 2012-08-13T12:31:22Z 2012-08-13T12:31:22Z 2007-10 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 English IFC Smart Lessons Brief CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Brief Publications & Research Africa |
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ACCESS TO FINANCE ADVISORY SERVICES BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS BUSINESS ENABLING BUSINESS ENABLING ENVIRONMENT BUSINESS INFORMATION BUSINESSES BUSINESSWOMEN CAPACITY BUILDING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMICS ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT EXPORT DEVELOPMENT EXPORT MARKET EXPORT MARKETS FEMALE FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS FEMALE ENTREPRENEURSHIP FEMALE POPULATION GENDER GENDER DIMENSION GENDER IMBALANCES HANDICRAFTS LOAN MARKET ACCESS MEDIUM ENTERPRISES MIDDLE EAST NETWORK OF WOMEN NEWSLETTER OUTREACH PRESSURE GROUP PRIVATE SECTOR PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONAL WOMEN RESULT RESULTS SUPERVISION TIME ZONES TRAINING WORKSHOP TRAINING WORKSHOPS USAID WOMEN BUSINESS OWNER WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS Niethammer, Carmen Gharbi, Hela What (Business) Women Want - Employing Surveys to Expand Our Knowledge About the State of Female Entrepreneurship in MENA Region |
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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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Publications & Research :: Brief |
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Niethammer, Carmen Gharbi, Hela |
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Niethammer, Carmen Gharbi, Hela |
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Niethammer, Carmen |
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What (Business) Women Want - Employing Surveys to Expand Our Knowledge About the State of Female Entrepreneurship in MENA Region |
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What (Business) Women Want - Employing Surveys to Expand Our Knowledge About the State of Female Entrepreneurship in MENA Region |
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What (Business) Women Want - Employing Surveys to Expand Our Knowledge About the State of Female Entrepreneurship in MENA Region |
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What (Business) Women Want - Employing Surveys to Expand Our Knowledge About the State of Female Entrepreneurship in MENA Region |
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What (Business) Women Want - Employing Surveys to Expand Our Knowledge About the State of Female Entrepreneurship in MENA Region |
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what (business) women want - employing surveys to expand our knowledge about the state of female entrepreneurship in mena region |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2012 |
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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 |
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