Entrepreneurial Finance, Innovation and Development

10 Emergence of women’s entrepreneurship in rural local development processes

Insights from Gadouan, Ivory Cost

Ayi Gavriel Ayayi, Chantale Dali and Théophile Serge Nomo

DOI: 10.4324/9781003134282-13

1. Introduction

In spite of remarkable economic successes in developing countries, poverty remains a serious phenomenon that is accentuated in rural areas and tends to be more pronounced in male–female disparities. To counter the social consequences of poverty, many women develop small and microenterprises that are precarious and generate little income (La Porta & Shleifer, 2014; Mead & Liedholm, 1998). In parallel with these individual or collective initiatives, many developing countries have reinforced decentralization and local development ...