Gender and constraints to entrepreneurship in Africa: New evidence from Swaziland
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- Brixiova, Zuzana & Kangoye, Thierry, 2015. "Gender and Constraints to Entrepreneurship in Africa: New Evidence from Swaziland," IZA Discussion Papers 9273, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Zuzana Brixiová & Thierry Kangoye, 2015. "Gender and Constraints to Entrepreneurship in Africa: New Evidence from Swaziland," SALDRU Working Papers 155, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town.
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Gender and entrepreneurship; Start-up capital; Skills; Training; Multivariate analysis;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L53 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Enterprise Policy
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
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