What Works in Supporting Women-led Businesses?

D Ubfal - 2024 - econstor.eu
Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to
global challenges. However, they face multiple barriers to growing their businesses. This …

Productivity and firm exit during the COVID-19 crisis: Cross-country evidence

S Muzi, F Jolevski, K Ueda, D Viganola - Small Business Economics, 2023 - Springer
This paper examines whether the economic crisis induced by the COVID-19 pandemic
exhibits a Schumpeterian “cleansing” of less productive firms. Using firm-level data collected …

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women-led businesses

J Torres, F Maduko, I Gaddis… - The World Bank …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has struck businesses across the globe with unprecedented
impacts. The world economy has been hit hard and firms have experienced a myriad of …

Casting a shadow: Productivity of formal firms and informality

M Amin, C Okou - Review of Development Economics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Informality is a salient feature of most developing economies. Two important concerns arise
from informality. First, informal firms tend to be less productive than formal firms. Second, the …

Innovation and labour productivity growth moderated by structural change: analysis in a global perspective

A Naveed, C Wang - Technovation, 2023 - Elsevier
The relationship between innovation and productivity growth has received a lot of attention
in recent decades. Many countries are facing economic structural changes in the form of …

[HTML][HTML] Gender and vulnerable employment in the developing world: Evidence from global microdata

MCL Bue, TTN Le, MS Silva, K Sen - World Development, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper investigates gender inequality in vulnerable employment: forms of employment
typically featuring high precariousness, inadequate earnings, and lack of decent working …

Gender and access to finance: perceived constraints of majority‐female‐owned Indian firms

N Dutta, S Mallick - British Journal of Management, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Do firms with majority female ownership differ from firms with minority female ownership or
male‐owned firms in terms of perceived constraints on accessing finance? Using World …

Supporting Women-Led Businesses: Narrative Review of Recent Causal Evidence

D Ubfal - The World Bank Research Observer, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to
global challenges. However, they face multiple barriers to growing their businesses. I review …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of female chief executive officers, ownership, and globalization on ASEAN manufacturers' technical efficiency performance

Y Amornkitvikai, T Charoenrat - Research in Globalization, 2024 - Elsevier
The premature deindustrialization of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
economies has impeded their development by restricting all prospects for growth, including …

Business productivity and efficiency from aligning with sustainable development goals: Empirical evidence from ASEAN manufacturing firms

Y Amornkitvikai, P Pholphirul - Business Strategy & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Businesses' alignment with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is
enthusiastically highlighted in practitioner and academic literature. However, based on the …