Contemporary Female Entrepreneurship in Nicaragua
Women are important entrepreneurial actors within the Nicaraguan economic ecosystem. Majority female-owned firms comprise 32.7% of all urban Nicaraguan formal enterprises; these ownership rates far exceed the regional (21.8%) or global averages (14.5%). Within Nicaragua, self-employment rates for wo...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | Colombia |
| Institución: | Universidad EAFIT |
| Repositorio: | Repositorio EAFIT |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repository.eafit.edu.co:10784/13938 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10784/13938 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Female Entrepreneurship Nicaragua Emprendimiento femenino |
| Sumario: | Women are important entrepreneurial actors within the Nicaraguan economic ecosystem. Majority female-owned firms comprise 32.7% of all urban Nicaraguan formal enterprises; these ownership rates far exceed the regional (21.8%) or global averages (14.5%). Within Nicaragua, self-employment rates for women (43.3%) surpass that of men (28.3%). This article describes the contemporary Nicaraguan entrepreneurial landscape for female-owned enterprises using the 2016 Nicaraguan Enterprise Survey of 333 formal sector urban-based firms conducted by the World Bank. Principal multivariate results include the concentration of female top management with majority female-ownership, the role of the informal sector in spawning formal female enterprises, and size constraints of female-owned enterprises. |
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