Tabs navigation
'Entrepreneurship development' for enterprising women?
Helping the poor to generate their own income through running their own businesses is a relatively new approach in international development aid. Nothing is wrong with that. In some countries the proportion of female-headed households reaches 30 per cent or even higher; and income generatedby women is more likely to be spent for the benefit of their families, especially their children, than income generated by men. Assistance given to women will be put to good use. As one Zambian business-woman put it: 'Help the women and you will help the country'. The question is whether the
'help' offered really matches women's needs.
Helping the poor to generate their own income through running their own businesses is a relatively new approach in international development aid. Nothing is wrong with that. In some countries the proportion of female-headed households reaches 30 per cent or even higher; and income generated
by women is more likely to be spent for the benefit of their families, especially their children, than income generated by men. Assistance given to women will be put to good use. As one Zambian business-woman put it: 'Help the women and you will help the country'. The question is whether the
'help' offered really matches women's needs.
by women is more likely to be spent for the benefit of their families, especially their children, than income generated by men. Assistance given to women will be put to good use. As one Zambian business-woman put it: 'Help the women and you will help the country'. The question is whether the
'help' offered really matches women's needs.
Women's Entrepreneurship in STEM Disciplines
Public Policies and Private Efforts to Increase Women Entrepreneurship Based on STEM Background
Alvarez-Risco, Aldo
Del-Aguila-Arcentales, Shyla
2021
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83792-1_5 [Citations: 20]Tabs navigation
- Value chain financing: evidence from Zambia on smallholder access to finance for mechanization
- Developing agro-pastoral entrepreneurship: bundling blended finance and technology
- Building frontline market facilitators' capacity: the case of the ‘Integrating Very Poor Producers into Value Chains Field Guide’
- Boosting financial inclusion through social assistance reform: evidence-based approach in selecting a payment system
- Impact of COVID-19 on livestock exports from Somalia and the Horn of Africa
Browse our other journals
