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MUVA Paper Series 2

Female Entrepreneurship and the Creation of More and Better Jobs in sub-Saharan African Countries

Published on 25 April 2022

Female entrepreneurship programmes often seek women’s economic empowerment through opportunities and skills to generate higher-paid and more stable jobs. Income and jobs do not automatically empower women but can contribute as they generate the necessary resources that support agency. It is important that sufficient and decent jobs, and other employment and income opportunities, are created and made accessible for women.

This paper is part of the MUVA Paper Series on female entrepreneurship. The question that it tries to answer is how to do this through the means of female entrepreneurship programmes within the context of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It analyses the case of MUVA, a social incubator based in Mozambique that aims to increase female economic empowerment through targeted and tailored innovative human-centred approaches.

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Quak, E.; Barenboim, I. and Guimarães, L. (2022) Female Entrepreneurship and the Creation of More and Better Jobs in sub-Saharan African Countries, MUVA Paper Series. Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, DOI: 10.19088/MUVA.2022.002

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Evert-jan Quak

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published by
Institute of Development Studies
doi
10.19088/MUVA.2022.002
language
English

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