Making it Easier for Women in Malawi to Formalize Their Firms and Access Financial Services (English)

The rate of informal firms is high in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially for those that are women-owned and in the poorest countries, despite a total of 107 business regulatory reforms recorded by Doing Business across 40 economies in the region. Through an experiment in Malawi, we established an effective and replicable design to offer informal firms support to formalize, costing much less than the typical private sector development intervention. The...

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Campos,Francisco Moraes Leitao;

Goldstein,Markus P.;

Mckenzie,David J.;
Document Date
2019/01/28
Document Type
Brief
Report Number
134095
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Malawi,
Region
Eastern and Southern Africa,
Disclosure Date
2019/01/28
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Making it Easier for Women in Malawi to Formalize Their Firms and Access Financial Services
Keywords
access to financial service

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Campos,Francisco Moraes Leitao; Goldstein,Markus P.; Mckenzie,David J..

Making it Easier for Women in Malawi to Formalize Their Firms and Access Financial Services (English). Gender Innovation Lab Policy Brief|no. 30 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/515901548692715700

Making it Easier for Women in Malawi to Formalize Their Firms and Access Financial Services (English)

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