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PISANI, MICHAEL J.. Contemporary Female Entrepreneurship in Nicaragua. AD-minister [online]. 2018, n.33, pp.5-20. ISSN 1692-0279.  https://doi.org/10.17230/ad-minister.33.1.

Women are important entrepreneurial actors within the Nicaraguan economic ecosystem. Majority fe- male-owned firms comprise 32.7% of all urban Nicaraguan formal enterprises; these ownership rates far exceed the regional (21.8%) or global averages (14.5%). Within Nicaragua, self-employment rates for women (43.3%) surpass that of men (28.3%). This article describes the contemporary Nicaraguan entrepreneurial landscape for female-owned enterprises using the 2016 Nicaraguan Enterprise Survey of 333 formal sector urban-based firms conducted by the World Bank. Principal multivariate results include the concentration of female top management with majority female-ownership, the role of the informal sector in spawning formal female enterprises, and size constraints of female-owned enterprises.

JEL: J16·L26·N16

Palavras-chave : Female Entrepreneurship; Nicaragua.

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