RECOGNIZING THE CONTRIBUTION OF FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: SOME EVIDENCE FROM GHANA
RECOGNIZING THE CONTRIBUTION OF FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: SOME EVIDENCE FROM GHANA
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认识到女性企业家对撒哈拉以南非洲经济发展的贡献：来自加纳的一些证据
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10.1142/s108494671550003x
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2015
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Kwame Adom
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Kwame Adom
近几十年来，女性企业家被视为对国家特别是发展中国家的经济发展做出了贡献。迄今为止，女性企业家对撒哈拉以南非洲（SSA）经济发展的贡献在发展界一直被置于幕后或被忽视。部分原因是女性企业家主要在非正规经济领域工作，她们是必需品驱动且被边缘化。该研究提出的主要研究问题是“女性企业家对撒哈拉以南非洲地区社会经济发展的贡献是什么？”本文试图通过批判性地审视加纳女性企业家作为实现经济发展的手段所做出的贡献来回答这个问题。该研究采用多案例研究设计的定性方法。为了考察女性创业精神，我们分析了 2014 年对加纳阿克拉 60 名女性企业家进行面对面访谈的调查。主要发现是，尽管男性企业家对经济发展的贡献远高于女性企业家，但女性企业家成为实现经济发展关键角色的潜力仍有待开发。该研究的这一结果和其他结果对女性创业政策有一些影响。因此，有人呼吁通过政策来利用这些潜力，促进女性与男性同行平等创业。这是第一项将女性创业作为加纳经济发展催化剂的研究。
In recent decades, female entrepreneurs have been seen to contribute to the economic development of nations especially in developing countries. Until now the contribution of female entrepreneurs to economic development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been relegated to the background or ignored in development circles. Part of the reason is because female entrepreneurs mainly work in the informal economy and are necessity driven and marginalized. The main research question the study poses is 'what is the contribution of female entrepreneurs to socio-economic development in SSA?' This paper seeks to answer this by examining critically the contribution of female entrepreneurs from Ghana as a means to achieve economic development. The study employs a qualitative approach using multiple case study design. To examine female entrepreneurship, a 2014 survey involving face-to-face interviews of 60 female entrepreneurs from Accra in Ghana is analyzed. The key finding is that, although male entrepreneurs contribute significantly more to economic development than their female counterparts, there remains untapped potential for female entrepreneurs becoming key players for achieving economic development. This and other findings of the study have some implications for policy on female entrepreneurship. Therefore, there is a call to harness these potentials through policies that would promote female entrepreneurship on an equal wavelength as their male counterparts. This is the first known study of female entrepreneurship as a catalyst for economic development in Ghana.