Female entrepreneurship to date represents a key component of the business sector
worldwide as, in 2012 more than 187 million out of 400 million entrepreneurs were women …

Small businesses are significant to any economy from the perspective of employment and
contribution to the national gross domestic product. Despite their significance, small …

This study examines the effect of financial inclusion on poverty and vulnerability to poverty of
Ghanaian households. Using data extracted from the seventh round of the Ghana Living …

We explore whether financing constraints affected the ways in which small and medium-
sized enterprises navigated through the economic disruptions caused by the COVID-19 …

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, there has been increased focus on access to finance
for small firms. Research from before the crisis suggested that it was harder for innovative …

Prior research has focused on the factors that affect funding success on equity crowdfunding
platforms, but a detailed understanding of the factors that drive firms to search for equity …

This article explores what we do (and do not) know about entrepreneurial finance and its
relationship with growth. Broadly, there is a need for research to go beyond traditional …

This article presents an overarching review of the evidence regarding enterprise diversity. It
discusses the context of ethnic minorities and women in enterprise and summarises …

Abstract Using the World Bank Enterprise Survey data, we analyze performance gaps
between male-and female-owned companies in three regions—Eastern Europe and Central …

In this paper, we analyze empirically the relation between the growth of new technology-
based firms and the human capital of founders, with the aim of teasing out the “wealth” and …