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| Author: | Bardasi, E. Sabarwal, S. Terrell, K. |
| Title: | How do female entrepreneurs perform? Evidence from three developing regions |
| Journal: | Small business economics
2011 : NOV, VOL. 37:4, p. 417-441 |
| Index terms: | entrepreneurship gender finance Africa Asia Latin America Eastern Europe |
| Freeterms: | developing regions |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Based on the World Bank Enterprise Survey data, analyzed are performance gaps btw. male- and female (henceforth as: m-and-f.) owned companies in three regions, that is, Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA), Latin America (LA), and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). There are found significant gender gaps btw. m-and-f. owned companies in terms of firm size, but much smaller gaps in terms of firm efficiency and growth (except in LA). The reason why women run smaller firms is, in part, that they tend to concentrate in sectors in which firms are smaller and less efficient (in ECA and SSA). By contrast, there is found no evidence of gender discrimination in access to formal finance in any of the three regions, although in ECA women are less likely than men to find formal finance. Finally, while female entrepreneurs receive smaller loans than their male counterparts, the returns from each dollar they receive is no lower as to overall sales revenue. |
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