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Over $1 billion funding for women entrepreneurs – Will it work?
The Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative, also known as We-Fi is a $1 billion dollar fund and potential game changer in accelerating the further expansion of women’s entrepreneurship in developing countries beyond the micro level. Launched at the G20’s leaders’ summit … Continue reading
Defining high growth/ high impact entrepreneurship
A widely accepted definition of high growth entrepreneurs identifies these enterprises as exhibiting an average annual growth (number of employees or by turnover) greater than 20% over a 3 year period[1]. Based on this definition, the Organization for Economic Cooperation … Continue reading
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How homophily hurts high-growth entrepreneurship
Homophily refers to the tendency for people to form connections with others like themselves. This tendency has been found to occur broadly across age, race and political inclination. Homophily has also been found to influence many types of relationships ranging from … Continue reading
Getting it Done: Barbara Kasoff – Champion for Women’s Business Advocacy
Even when public sector institutions commit to policies that include a gender perspective, the knowledge and capacity are often lacking to ensure that women will be able to benefit from the specific initiative or intervention. More involvement is needed to … Continue reading
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Trump and Women’s Entrepreneurship in the US: Gender, Elitism and Privilege
To date, Trump’s biggest influence on his ideas regarding women entrepreneurs has arguably been his entrepreneur daughter Ivanka Trump. Trump may also base his notions of women’s entrepreneurship on his own experiences as an entrepreneur. In this regard, both Trump … Continue reading
She Started It — a film about entrepreneurs that happen to be women
She Started It – a film about entrepreneurs that happen to be women Is a film that highlights resilience, perseverance and grit of five entrepreneurs. Their companies, approaches and backgrounds are different, but they share one thing in common, they … Continue reading
Making women business owners visible: World Bank’s Doing Business Index adds gender
The World Bank’s Doing Business Index (DBI) has helped reduce burdens for business development worldwide. Since its creation in 2004, over 600 reforms have been recorded for easing the requirements for starting a business and 443 reforms for tax-related issues. … Continue reading
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The Melting Middle: Unleashing the full potential of high impact entrepreneurs
In the US, 30% of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are owned by women while in Canada, only 16% of SMEs are owned by women. Yet in countries such as Ghana, Thailand and Uganda there are more female startups than … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Angola, Canada, Dell, economic growth, female entrepreneurship, gender, Gendered Business Growth Gap, Global Women Entrepreneur Leaders Scorecard, Hassina Syed, institutions, Isobel de Santos, Jessica Alba, public policy, USA, women entrepreneurs
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Ruta Aidis, PhD 