scholarly journals Do Informal Sector Businesses Support Women’s Livelihood? A Case of Butwal Sub-metropolitan of Nepal

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 43-54
Author(s):  
Jeevanath Devkota ◽  
Devaka Devkota
Keyword(s):  
Sample Size ◽  
Informal Sector ◽  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Income Level ◽  
Business Skills ◽  
Pocket Money

Informal sector business seems rapidly increasing in Nepal. This paperexamines the effect of informal businesses on women’s livelihood, which isgenerally not documented in the literature. This study uses primary datacollected from the Butwal sub-metropolitan, Rupandehi District, Province5 of Nepal. Sample size is 300 women entrepreneurs. There is a positivecorrelation between income level and married as well as migrated womenentrepreneurs. Better educated women entrepreneurs are more likely toearn from their businesses in comparison to the less educated women.Women are learning business skills through businesses. Most important,old aged women (around/over 60 years) should not depend on their sonor daughter for their livelihood and for pocket money after starting suchbusinesses.

scholarly journals Do Informal Sector Businesses Support Women’s Livelihood? A Case of Butwal Sub-Metropolitan in Nepal

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeevanath Devkota ◽  
Devaka Devkota
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Sample Size ◽  
Informal Sector ◽  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Income Level ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Regression Result ◽  
Pocket Money ◽  
Logistic Regression Result

Abstract Informal sector business is rapidly increasing in Nepal. This paper examines the effect of informal businesses on women’s livelihood, which is not documented in the literature. This study uses primary data collected from the Butwal sub-metropolitan, Nawalparasi District, Province 5 of Nepal. Sample size is 300 women entrepreneurs. There is a positive correlation between income level and married as well as migrated women entrepreneurs. Logistic Regression result shows more educated women entrepreneurs are more likely to earn from their businesses in comparison to the less educated women. Qualitative analysis shows women are learning business doing skills. Most important, old aged women (around/over 60 years) should not depend on their son or daughter for bread and butter and for pocket money after starting such business.

Promoting Women’s Entrepreneurship in Lebanon: Enhancing Empowerment or Vulnerability?

1970 ◽  
pp. 39-47
Author(s):  
Nabil Abdo
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Group Formation ◽  
Business Groups ◽  
Economic Empowerment ◽  
Sustainable Livelihood ◽  
Business Skills ◽  
Palestinian Women ◽  
Support Organizations ◽  
And Training

The International Labour Organization in Beirut has been running a project in the Palestinian Camps of Nahr El Bared and Ein El Helweh entitled “Palestinian Women Economic Empowerment Initiative”. The project started in 2011 and targets lowincome Palestinian women entrepreneurs through a threefold strategy: giving out loans and grants to women business groups in order to expand their businesses; training women entrepreneurs to enhance their business skills; and building the capacity of support organizations in order to improve business development services for women entrepreneurs and training them to be formally certified to deliver business group formation training. The project builds on the potential of business groups in assuring the protection of Palestinian women entrepreneurs from risks through resilience, pooling of resources, and collective voice. The objectives are to assure a sustainable livelihood for Palestinian women entrepreneurs through supporting them in expanding their businesses beyond survivalist low-income activities

Challenges and enablers of women entrepreneurs’ career advancement in Vietnam’s coffee industry

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Giang NT Nguyen ◽  
Thinh Gia Hoang ◽  
Tam Minh Nguyen ◽  
Thanh Thien Ngo
Keyword(s):  
Sample Size ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Career Advancement ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Concept Generation ◽  
Contextual Influences ◽  
Female Entrepreneurs ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities

Purpose This paper aims to explore the motivational factors and contextual facilitators of female entrepreneurs in Vietnam’s coffee industry and also the barriers facing them. Design/methodology/approach This study adopts the grounded theory approach, using semi-structured in-depth interviews with 31 women entrepreneurs in the coffee industry in the rural Central Highlands of Vietnam. Findings This study found that necessity-driven factors play an important role in motivating female entrepreneurs to advance their careers. However, these factors may be transformed into the opportunity-driven motives. Furthermore, the findings suggest that Asia’s collectivism culture and family support significantly affect the success of the women entrepreneurs, although gender inequality is not perceived as a serious constraint in entrepreneurial activities. Research limitations/implications This study has implications for the literature of women entrepreneurs regarding motivations and contextual influences in agricultural and rural areas of Vietnam. However, the sample size is relatively small which limits the concept generation of the study. For further research, a larger sample size with different business sectors should be considered to generate more explicit findings. Practical implications The findings from this study can assist the policymakers in developing strategies and governmental policies to support the career advancement of women entrepreneurs and improving gender equality in Vietnam. Originality/value This study contributes to the literature about understanding the motives and the roles of socioeconomic contexts in women’s entrepreneurial activities in agricultural and rural areas.

Financial crisis and informal sector women entrepreneurs in Mauritius

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harshana Kasseeah ◽  
Ruben Thoplan ◽  
Verena Tandrayen Ragoobur
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Informal Sector ◽  
Women Entrepreneurs

scholarly journals PENCEGAHAN TKI KEMBALI KE LUAR NEGERI MELALUI PELATIHAN UNTUK DAPAT BERWIRAUSAHA

Sarwahita ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-39
Author(s):  
Dede Rahmat Hidayat
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Informal Sector ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Formal Sector ◽  
Entrepreneurship Training ◽  
Business Skills ◽  
Informal Labor ◽  
Middle East Countries

Indonesia is one of the largest suppliers of informal labor in developed countries in ASEAN, Hongkong, Korea, Japan and Middle East Countries. Unlike the formal workforce that has good protection and income certainty. Workers in the non-formal sector still have vulnerabilities to get problems so there are efforts to reduce and prevent more Indonesians from becoming workers in the informal sector. One strategy is to increase the potential of migrant workers not to go abroad and to prevent ex-migrant workers from returning abroad.How to prevent good is to train the former migrant workers by sharing skills so that they can develop their business independently. The training developed is to train entrepreneurial character and practice business skills. Community service is expected to help the program. Community service activities for former migrant workers are conducted in the form of entrepreneurship training. In this activity the participants are former TKI in Sukabumi which amounted to 20 people, conducted in Cibolang Village Gunung Guruh District.

Emergence of Mobile Financial Services in Ghana: Concerns for Use among Informal Sector Women Entrepreneurs

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. S415-S432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond K. Dziwornu ◽  
Kingsley K. Anagba ◽  
Ampem D. Aniapam
Keyword(s):  
Informal Sector ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Multinomial Logit Model ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Television Advertisement ◽  
Mobile Financial Services ◽  
Indispensable Tool

Mobile financial services (MFS) have emerged in recent years as an indispensable tool to promote financial inclusion in emerging economies like Ghana. This article investigated the factors affecting MFS use among 300 women entrepreneurs in the informal sector in Ghana, using multinomial logit model. Knowledge of MFS, trust of services provided, nearness to agents and privacy of information are more likely to drive MFS use. In addition to embarking on aggressive radio and television advertisement, service operators should deploy more agents and invest in reliable infrastructure to build users’ trust to increase MFS use. JEL Classification: D12, G20

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