Entrepreneurship
Women-owned small and medium enterprises (SMEs) represent a small portion of formal SMEs in emerging markets and face many limitations to success. Women have more restrictions to accessing finance and with less favorable terms. Reducing constraints would level the playing field and open more opportunities for women entrepreneurs.
Firms with female participation in ownership (% of firms)
A woman can register a business or sign a contract in the same way as a man
Register a business
Yes
No
Sign a contract
Yes
No
Sole proprietors by sex (% of total newly registered sole proprietors)
Indicators
- A woman can register a business in the same way as a man (1=yes; 0=no)
- A woman can sign a contract in the same way as a man (1=yes; 0=no)
- Borrowed to start, operate, or expand a farm or business (% age 15+)
- Cost of business start-up procedures (% of GNI per capita)
- Firms with female participation in ownership (% of firms)
- Firms with female top manager (% of firms)
- Number of business owners
- Number of directors
- Number of sole proprietors
- Saved to start, operate, or expand a farm or business (% age 15+)
- Share of business owners (% of total business owners)
- Share of directors (% of total directors)
- Share of sole proprietors (% of sole proprietors)
- Start-up procedures to register a business (number)
- Time required to start a business (days)
- Women, Business and the Law: Entrepreneurship Indicator Score (scale 1-100)
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