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Policy brief female entrepreneurship and professional networks
Business collaborations and female entrepreneurship

Female entrepreneurship and professional networks

Policy brief Sustainable Growth

This policy brief explores how access to online networking opportunities and legal support affects the firm performance of female-owned businesses, finding that a low-cost, light-touch intervention could help to close the gender gap in business outcomes.

Authors

Edward Asiedu

Senior Lecturer, University of Ghana

Monica Lambon-Quayefio

Researcher, University of Ghana

Francesca Truffa

Assistant Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan

Ashley Wong

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Tilburg University
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