Gender and Rural Non-Farm Entrepreneurship

World Development

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2411-2426

  Rijkers, Bob ^a   Costa, Rita ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Entrepreneurship; Ethiopia; Gender; Indonesia; Rural; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; ENTREPRENEUR; GENDER RELATIONS; GENDER ROLE; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; HUMAN CAPITAL; INVESTMENT; RETURNS TO SCALE; RURAL ECONOMY; WOMENS STATUS;

BANGLADESH; ETHIOPIA; INDONESIA; SRI LANKA;

EID: 84869079234     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.05.017     Document Type: Article

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