Making do by doing without: bricolage in the funding sources of female entrepreneurs in resource-constrained environments

Female entrepreneurship is increasingly playing phenomenal roles in the economic growth of many countries. Several businesses employing many people and producing a lot of revenues are created and run by women. Many governments and international bodies are promoting female entrepreneurship fervently...

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