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Supporting Women Entrepreneurs in Tunisia

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  • Imed Drine
  • Mouna Grach

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Whether policy support should be designed differently for women entrepreneurs is a particularly relevant question. To answer this, and to inform the design of policies to provide appropriate support for women entrepreneurs, the paper compares male and female perceptions of typical entrepreneurship support services, such as government provision of information, training and funding. The focus is on Tunisia, a developing country characterized by high level of unemployment, particularly of women.

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  • Imed Drine & Mouna Grach, 2010. "Supporting Women Entrepreneurs in Tunisia," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2010-100, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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