This study examines the relationship between financial inclusion and women's economic empowerment in the Ethiopian context. Scholars and development agents have long argued for the importance of access to financial products and services in achieving equitable economic growth and reducing...

Evidence shows that gender inequality characterizes the enterprise landscape in sub-Saharan Africa, with women disproportionately concentrating in low return businesses. With the literature leaning toward comparing male- and female-owned enterprises and among females in female- and...

The business environment in which a firm operates has an important impact on firm performance. This study examined the impact of credit constraint and power outages on the firm's investment decision using World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) data collected from firms operating in 13 sub-Saharan...

The poor business environment mainly poor infrastructure is found to has paramount importance in explaining Africa's disadvantage relative to other similar countries. To cope with this poor supply of electricity, firms adopt different mechanisms to reduce the resulting effects. The commonly...

The unreliable supply of electricity is the main constraints to doing business in Ethiopia. This paper examined how firms in Ethiopia respond to power outage employing the World Bank Enterprise Survey data. The result shows that, in response to power outages, firms in Ethiopia self-generate...