Profiting from Parity
| dc.creator | World Bank Group | |
| dc.date | 2019-03-20T15:44:21Z | |
| dc.date | 2019-03-20T15:44:21Z | |
| dc.date | 2019-03-19 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-01T00:36:13Z | |
| dc.description | Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest rate of entrepreneurship in the world, with approximately 42 percent of the non-agricultural labor force classified as self-employed or employers. Yet most entrepreneurs are unable to grow their businesses beyond small-scale subsistence operations, impeding their contribution to poverty reduction and shared prosperity. This is particularly so for women. This new report, “Profiting from Parity: Unlocking the Potential of Women’s Businesses in Africa”, produced by the World Bank Group’s Africa Gender Innovation Lab and the Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice, seeks to focus attention on the challenges that Africa’s women entrepreneurs face and identify practical solutions. The report draws on new, high-quality, household and firm level data to present the clearest evidence to date about the barriers to growth and profitability faced by women entrepreneurs. It goes beyond looking at contextual, endowment and household restrictions in isolation, and, through deep-dive analysis, uncovers new evidence on how social norms, networks and household-level decision making contribute to business performance. It analyzes how they are linked to each other and to women’s strategic business decisions. The report offers policy makers evidence based guidance on designing programs to target multiple obstacles and improve the performance of women entrepreneurs. | |
| dc.description | Le développement des entreprises est un moteur essentiel de la croissance économique et de la création d’emploi. Sans l’entrepreneuriat, il y aurait peu d’innovation, peu de croissance de la productivité et peu de nouveaux emplois. Plus des trois quarts de la population africaine estiment que les entrepreneurs sont admirés au sein de leur société. L’entrepreneuriat est également considéré par 76 % des Africains comme un bon choix de carrière. Il s’agit du taux le plus élevé du monde. La promotion de l’égalité hommes-femmes est un choix économique judicieux, une bonne pratique de gestion pour les entreprises et doit être au coeur des politiques de développement. Lorsque les femmes ont les mêmes chances que les hommes de prendre leur destin en main, de contribuer à l’économie de leur foyer, de leurs communautés et de leurs pays, la productivité, les résultats de développement et la performance des entreprises et des institutions ne s’en portent que mieux. | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/501971553025918098/Full-Report | |
| dc.identifier | https://hdl.handle.net/10986/31421 | |
| dc.identifier | 10.1596/31421 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/407113 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.publisher | World Bank, Washington, DC | |
| dc.rights | CC BY 3.0 IGO | |
| dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo | |
| dc.rights | World Bank | |
| dc.subject | FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS | |
| dc.subject | FIRM PERFORMANCE | |
| dc.subject | GENDER GAP | |
| dc.subject | SKILLS GAP | |
| dc.subject | AFRICA GENDER POLICY | |
| dc.subject | GENDER INNOVATION LAB | |
| dc.subject | INEQUALITY | |
| dc.subject | WOMEN AND PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT | |
| dc.title | Profiting from Parity | |
| dc.title | Les Bénéfices de la Parité | |
| dc.title | Unlocking the Potential of Women's Business in Africa | |
| dc.title | Libérons le Potentiel de L'entrepreneuriat Féminin en Afrique | |
| dc.type | Report | |
| dc.type | Rapport | |
| dc.type | Informe |