Jobs, gender and small enterprises: getting the policy environment right

Linda Mayoux

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Jobs, gender and small enterprises: getting the policy environment right

Linda Mayoux

SEED working paper (Geneva, Switzerland), no. 15, ILO

2001

women workers

microenterprise

small enterprise

small scale industry

enterprise creation

obstacle

poverty alleviation

institutional framework

government policy

gender mainstreaming

womens empowerment

role of ILO

developed countries

developing countries

Entrepreneurship

Globalization

Provides a review of relevant approaches to formulating effective policies to promote women's entrepreneur development. Following the identification of three paradigms of medium and small scale entrerprise development (the neo-liberal market pardigm, feminist empowerment, and interventionist poverty alleviation), reviews the diverse economic and socio-politcal environments in African, South Asian, European countries and the US. Advocates socially equitable growth, enounces best practice policies, and concludes about ILO's gender mainstreaming policy.

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: Jobs, gender and small enterprises; getting the policy environment right
: Linda Mayoux
: InFocus Programme on Boosting Employment through Small Enterprise Development
International Labour Organization. Job Creation and Enterprise Department
: ILO; Geneva
: 2001
: SEED working paper (Geneva, Switzerland); no. 15
: xiii, 126 p.
: English
: working paper
: 995328415602676