Enterprising Women in Southern Africa: When Does Land Ownership Matter?

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989100%3A27510%2F20%3A10246114" target="_blank" >RIV/61989100:27510/20:10246114 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/61384399:31110/20:00055250

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10834-020-09663-2" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10834-020-09663-2</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10834-020-09663-2" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10834-020-09663-2</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Enterprising Women in Southern Africa: When Does Land Ownership Matter?

Original language description

Limited access to finance remains one of the major barriers for women entrepreneurs in Africa. This paper presents a model of start-ups in which firms&apos; sales and profits depend on their productivity and access to credit. However, due to the lack of collateral assets such as land, female entrepreneurs have more constrained access to credit than do men. Testing the model on data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys in Eswatini, Lesotho, and Zimbabwe, we find land ownership to be important for female entrepreneurial performance in terms of sales levels. These results suggest that the small Southern African economies would benefit from removing obstacles to female land tenure and enabling financial institutions to lend against movable collateral. Although land ownership is linked with higher sales levels, it is less critical for sales growth and innovation where access to short term loans for working capital seems to be key.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50200 - Economics and Business

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA19-25280S" target="_blank" >GA19-25280S: Drivers and impacts of the technological knowledge in emerging market and developing economies</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Family and Economic Issues

ISSN

1058-0476

e-ISSN

1573-3475

Volume of the periodical

41

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

37-51

UT code for WoS article

000516336300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85080859524