Jobs, gender and small enterprises in Africa and Asia: lessons drawn from Bangladesh, the Philippines, Tunisia and Zimbabwe
Pamela Nichols Marcucci
SEED working paper (Geneva, Switzerland), no. 18, ILO
2001
Abstract
women workers woman manager entrepreneur small enterprise microenterprise economic implication legal aspect cultural factor enterprise creation access to credit training opportunity business support network state intervention management obstacle statistical table Zimbabwe Entrepreneurship Bangladesh Philippines Tunisia
Provides an overview of the situation of women micro and small entrepreneurs against a back drop of the four countries' economic conditions and the gender based socio-cultural, legal and political systems in place in these countries.