%0 Journal Article
%T Contemporary Female Entrepreneurship in Nicaragua
%A Michael J Pisani
%J -
%D 2018
%R https://doi.org/10.17230/ad-minister.33.1
%X Women are important entrepreneurial actors within the Nicaraguan economic ecosystem. Majority female-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
%K Female Entrepreneurship
%K Nicaragua
%U http://publicaciones.eafit.edu.co/index.php/administer/article/view/ad-minister.33.1