Find general information on women business owners around the world.

Facts & Figures

International

  • Promoting Women's Entrepreneurship Development based on Good Practice Programmes: Some Experiences from the North to the South International Labour
    Office, Geneva, 2001
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  • Women's Entrepreneurship: Issues and Policies
    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), May 2004
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  • 2005 Report on Women and Entrepreneurship
    Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, Babson College and London Business School
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Africa

Asia & the Pacific

  • Jobs, Gender and Small Enterprises in Bangladesh
    International Labour Organisation (ILO), 2001
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  • Asia Entrepreneurship Update
    Stanford University, April 4, 2006
    Richard B. Dasher, Ph.D., Director, US-Asia Technology Management Center
    Executive Director, Center for Integrated Systems
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  • Women entrepreneurs in India: Problems, Motivations and Success Factors
    Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, University of Regina, Canada, 2001
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  • Entrepreneurial Gender Gap in New Zealand
    Prue Cruickshank, School of Communication, Unitec New Zealand
    Shelley Eden, School of Management & Entrepreneurship, Unitec New
    Zealand, 2005
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Europe

Latin America & the Carribean

  • Jobs, gender and small enterprises in the Caribbean: Lessons from Barbados, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.
    International Labour Organisation (ILO), 2001
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  • Women's Entrepreneurship in Latin America: An Exploration of Current Knowledge
    Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D. C., 2001
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North America

  • Sustaining the momentum: Gender, Entrepreneurship and Public Policy
    Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, University of Regina, Canada, 2006
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  • Exporting as a Means of Growth for Women-Owned Canadian SMEs
    Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, University of Regina, Canada, 2004
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