Monitoring COVID-19 Impacts on Firms in Ethiopia : Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect Women-Owned Firms Differently

Monitoring COVID-19 Impacts on Firms in Ethiopia : Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect Women-Owned Firms Differently

As COVID-19 continues to disrupt the Ethiopian economy, a major concern is that the pre-existing gendered challenges facing women entrepreneurs, in access to capital and hired labor, for example, will worsen, further undermining the survival and pe...

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Main Authors: Abebe, Girum, Bundervoet, Tom, Wieser, Christina
Format: Brief
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:
GENDER-BASED ANALYSIS
WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS
FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS
ACCESS TO FINANCE
CORONAVIRUS
COVID-19
PANDEMIC IMPACT
AFRICA GENDER POLICY
GENDER INNOVATION LAB
WOMEN AND PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/480721602823558078/Monitoring-COVID-19-Impacts-on-Firms-in-Ethiopia-Does-the-COVID-19-Pandemic-Affect-Women-Owned-Firms-Differently
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spelling okr-10986-347062021-05-25T10:54:41Z Monitoring COVID-19 Impacts on Firms in Ethiopia : Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect Women-Owned Firms Differently Abebe, Girum Bundervoet, Tom Wieser, Christina GENDER-BASED ANALYSIS WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS ACCESS TO FINANCE CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 PANDEMIC IMPACT AFRICA GENDER POLICY GENDER INNOVATION LAB WOMEN AND PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT As COVID-19 continues to disrupt the Ethiopian economy, a major concern is that the pre-existing gendered challenges facing women entrepreneurs, in access to capital and hired labor, for example, will worsen, further undermining the survival and performance of women-owned firms. However, very little data exist to monitor the gender differences in impacts brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, in April 2020, the World Bank launched a high-frequency phone survey (HFPS-F) of a random sample of firms in Addis Ababa to collect detailed information on firm operations, hiring and firing, and expectations of future operations and labor demand. The analysis that follows draws on the three rounds of the HFPS-F survey implemented between April 15 and June 18, 2020, consisting of a balanced panel of 454 firms from Addis Ababa. 2020-10-30T15:27:45Z 2020-10-30T15:27:45Z 2020-09 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/480721602823558078/Monitoring-COVID-19-Impacts-on-Firms-in-Ethiopia-Does-the-COVID-19-Pandemic-Affect-Women-Owned-Firms-Differently http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34706 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief Africa Ethiopia
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topic GENDER-BASED ANALYSIS
WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS
FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS
ACCESS TO FINANCE
CORONAVIRUS
COVID-19
PANDEMIC IMPACT
AFRICA GENDER POLICY
GENDER INNOVATION LAB
WOMEN AND PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT
spellingShingle GENDER-BASED ANALYSIS
WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS
FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS
ACCESS TO FINANCE
CORONAVIRUS
COVID-19
PANDEMIC IMPACT
AFRICA GENDER POLICY
GENDER INNOVATION LAB
WOMEN AND PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT
Abebe, Girum
Bundervoet, Tom
Wieser, Christina
Monitoring COVID-19 Impacts on Firms in Ethiopia : Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect Women-Owned Firms Differently
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description As COVID-19 continues to disrupt the Ethiopian economy, a major concern is that the pre-existing gendered challenges facing women entrepreneurs, in access to capital and hired labor, for example, will worsen, further undermining the survival and performance of women-owned firms. However, very little data exist to monitor the gender differences in impacts brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, in April 2020, the World Bank launched a high-frequency phone survey (HFPS-F) of a random sample of firms in Addis Ababa to collect detailed information on firm operations, hiring and firing, and expectations of future operations and labor demand. The analysis that follows draws on the three rounds of the HFPS-F survey implemented between April 15 and June 18, 2020, consisting of a balanced panel of 454 firms from Addis Ababa.
format Brief
author Abebe, Girum
Bundervoet, Tom
Wieser, Christina
author_facet Abebe, Girum
Bundervoet, Tom
Wieser, Christina
author_sort Abebe, Girum
title Monitoring COVID-19 Impacts on Firms in Ethiopia : Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect Women-Owned Firms Differently
title_short Monitoring COVID-19 Impacts on Firms in Ethiopia : Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect Women-Owned Firms Differently
title_full Monitoring COVID-19 Impacts on Firms in Ethiopia : Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect Women-Owned Firms Differently
title_fullStr Monitoring COVID-19 Impacts on Firms in Ethiopia : Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect Women-Owned Firms Differently
title_full_unstemmed Monitoring COVID-19 Impacts on Firms in Ethiopia : Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect Women-Owned Firms Differently
title_sort monitoring covid-19 impacts on firms in ethiopia : does the covid-19 pandemic affect women-owned firms differently
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2020
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/480721602823558078/Monitoring-COVID-19-Impacts-on-Firms-in-Ethiopia-Does-the-COVID-19-Pandemic-Affect-Women-Owned-Firms-Differently
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