Empowering the other half: women and private sector growth in the Pacific

Women in the Pacific, as in other less-developed regions, face challenges to realizing their economic potential and these are compounded by a series of systemic, legal and institutional barriers. Taken together, these challenges can severely limit women's participation in the formal economy and exclude them from entrepreneurial activity. The Pacific Private Sector Development Initiative (PSDI) is a regional technical assistance facility co-financed by the Government of Australia, the Government of New Zealand, and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Since 2006, PSDI has been working with ADB's 1 ... Show more

Corporate authors: Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Published: Mandaluyong City, Philippines, Asian Development Bank, 2016

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Physical description: 20 p.

Access item: http://www.adb.org/publications/empowering-other-half-women-and-private-sector-growth-pacific

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