 Does female entrepreneurship add in economic growth? Evidence from twenty-five countriesSalim Morched and Anis Jarboui Journal of Academic Finance, 2018, vol. 9, issue 2, 20 - 35 Abstract: Recent researches in the field of entrepreneurship give a renewed interest in the role of women entrepreneurship in the economic development. This document aims to draw up an analysis of the effect of female entrepreneurship on economic growth using a panel data over the period 2000-2014 for a sample of twenty-five (developed and developing) countries. Results show that female entrepreneurship has a significant negative effect but also entrepreneurship is considered the channel, it has an indirect impact on economic growth even business creation has been a real engine of economic development; these are seen as a means to generate employment opportunities, income distribution, wealth creation and poverty reduction. Some recommendations are presented, in order to support of government initiatives and the effect on women-owned business performance which are also important. Keywords: Female entrepreneurship; economic growth, entrepreneuriat féminin; croissance économique (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:jaf:journl:v:9:y:2018:i:2:n:132 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Academic Finance is currently edited by Jamel Henchiri More articles in Journal of Academic Finance from RED research unit, university of Gabes, Tunisia Contact information at EDIRC. |
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