非洲的女商人 - - 资金不足还是表现不佳?
Charles Ackah1, Holger Görg2,3, Aoife Hanley2,3
1University of Ghana - ISSER, Accra, Ghana.
概括
财政限制解释了加纳男性和女性企业家之间的生产力差距. 当资金不是问题时,女性企业主实现了更高的生产率,这凸显了流动性对非洲的重要性.
科学领域:
- 商业和经济学 商业和经济学
- 发展经济学 发展经济学
- 性别研究是性别研究.
背景情况:
- 非洲的"狮子女" (成功的女性企业家) 得到国际认可,但流动性在他们的成功中所扮演的角色被研究不足.
- 现有的研究表明,非洲企业中存在性别生产力差距,但根本原因需要进一步调查.
- 了解金融准入及其对企业业绩的影响对于促进企业家精神中的性别平等至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查财政限制对加纳男性和女性企业之间的生产力差距的影响.
- 确定影响业务业绩的特定财务来源,如供应商信贷和股权.
- 确定解决财务挑战是否可以消除观察到的性别绩效差距.
主要方法:
- 利用了来自加纳800多家男女企业小组的数据 (ISSER-IGC调查).
- 量化了资金不足,并分析了包括供应商信贷和股权在内的各种融资来源.
- 使用回归分析来比较生产率水平,并确定影响性别绩效差距的因素.
主要成果:
- 观察到女性与男性的生产力差距为11-19%,与其他非洲国家的估计一致.
- 这种性别绩效差距在分析中考虑了财务限制时消失了.
- 报告没有融资问题的女性企业主表现出比男性更高的生产力,控制其他因素.
- 供应商信贷成为非洲女性企业家的关键,以前未被认可的金融资源.
结论:
- 财政限制是加纳企业性别生产力差距的主要驱动因素.
- 确保充足的流动性和获得融资,特别是供应商信贷,对于促进女性创业至关重要.
- 旨在缓解金融挑战的政策干预可以显著提高女性拥有的企业的业绩.
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