Entrepreneurship is widely argued to be critical for alleviating extreme poverty. However,
research on this topic is characterized by diverging perspectives regarding poverty …

Purpose This paper aims to identify and ranks constraints faced by women entrepreneurs in
develo** countries. It offers a framework to differentiate between the constraints faced by …

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) survival is critical for economic sustainability due to
the multifaceted role of the economy. Thus, halting SMEs operation hurts the aggregate …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to establish the moderating effect of financial literacy in
the relationship between access to finance and growth of small and medium enterprises …

Entrepreneurship has a leading role in economic development worldwide and, although it
has usually been considered as a male dominated activity, recent studies emphasize how …

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 …

Barriers to women entrepreneurship are numerous but they are all treated with equal
importance in prior research. We believe prioritisation will advance our understanding …

In this article we provide an introduction to the papers in the special section of this edition of
the European Journal of Development Research. We start by framing the challenges posed …

We conduct a randomized experiment among women in urban Sri Lanka to measure the
impact of the most commonly used business training course in develo** countries, the …

Although the vast majority of small firms in develo** countries never expand beyond a few
employees, some experience rapid and substantial growth. This study explores factors …