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Developing woman entrepreneurs in south Asia: issues, initiatives & experience (pdf 380kb)

The objective of the paper is to review the issues, initiatives and experiences in developing women entrepreneurs in South Asia.

The literature review undertaken for this study suggests that there are three types of issues mostly referred by different authors:

- General profile of women entrepreneurs and their backgrounds
- Critical issues pertaining to women's entrepreneurship, and the problems and constraints faced by them
- Various governmental and non-governmental organizations formed to enable women to access available credit facilities, training and capacity-building, and making provisions for infrastructural capital for various entrepreneurial ventures

The paper concludes with a series of recommendations for:
- ESCAP and other donor agencies
- Governments
- Women entrepreneurs and their organizations

 

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