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Access to Financing for Productive Employment Opportunities for Women in Rural Benin

Fiamohe, Rose; Dedehouanou, Fidèle Ange; Araar, Abdelkrim - 2021

Government and financial institutions have attempted to address low financial inclusion in the development of sustainable microenterprises in rural Benin, especially with regard to women. In general, however, their actions have not been guided by evidence regarding the design of financing...

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Gendered Perspectives on Access to Credit for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in Kenya

Odhiambo, Fredrick Onyango - 2023

Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) play a crucial role in driving economic growth and job creation, particularly in developing nations. These enterprises constitute the majority of businesses globally and contribute significantly to employment and Gross Domestic Product (GDP). However,...

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Your Gender Identity Is Who You Are : Female CEOs and Corporate Debt Structure

Zhu, Qi - 2020

We examine the implications of CEO gender for corporate debt structure. After controlling for endogeneity, firms with female CEOs issue less debt than firms with male CEOs. Although both risk aversion and overconfidence may serve as the channel of our main finding, we show that female CEOs being...

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Socio-Economic Upliftment of the Women Through Self-Groups

S, Raja - 2020

facilities is an integral part of economic development. Women constitute almost half of the population in India but they are not … enjoying their freedom, equalities, privilege at par with their male counterparts. Since implementation of planning in India …

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A Study on the Barriers faced by Women Farmers in Accessing Agricultural Insurance in India & Policy Recommendations

Jain, Harshita - 2021

A woman’s ownership in farming is ordinarily guided by either the absence of a male lead member in the family due to death, disease or migration, or endemic social norms and practices governing her interaction pattern. Women farmers often end up being in a vicious cycle of low investment, low...

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Women on Board and Performance of Family Firms : Evidence from India

Sarkar, Jayati - 2017

India. Existing literature on the subject has primarily focused on widely held firms, notably in the US. Given that … the context of family firms. India provides an ideal setting for analyzing this question as the presence of family firms … is pervasive and since 2013 India has instituted gender quotas on corporate boards. Using a data-set of 10218 firm year …

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ESG Ratings and Impact of Women Leadership in Organizations : A Case Study from India

Dwivedi, Dwijendra Nath; Tadoori, Gattaiah; Batra, S - 2023

While many ESG measures focus on factors that influence an organization's bottom line, some do not consider the role of women in leadership. First, we want to perform a time series segmentation study to identify the clusters of companies that have improved the ESG scores over the years and also...

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Women on Board and Performance of Family Firms : Evidence from India

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Women as marginal workers in informal mining and quarrying, India : a preliminary analysis

Mukhopadhaya, Pundarik; Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala - In: Journal of the Asia Pacific economy 19 (2014) 2, pp. 290-309

This paper presents an analysis of 2001 Indian Census data at the state level on women workers in the mining and quarrying (M&Q) sector. In the absence of official data on informal M&Q, the paper uses the census category of ‘marginal workers’ as a rough indicator of informal employment...

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Women Against Cement : Environmental Activism in the Kendeng Mountain Range of Central Java Indonesia

Nawiyanto, Nawiyanto; Endrayadi, Eko Crys - 2019

This article seeks to discuss the women’s environmental activism as manifested in their involvement in the contemporary anti-cement movement in the Kendeng Mountain Range of Central Java. Three major issues are dealt with here: 1) the ways in which the issues of women and the environment are...

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