Global programs / Growth and equity through microenterprise investment (GEMINI)
Growth and equity through microenterprise investment (GEMINI)
Growth-oriented economic strategies, which favor the allocation of government resources to high-growth sectors, are often criticized by women in development (WID) researchers, because of the concentration of women in low-growth, low-return… DEC abstract (PN-ABG-351)
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Growth-oriented economic strategies, which favor the allocation of government resources to high-growth sectors, are often criticized by women in development (WID) researchers, because of the concentration of women in low-growth, low-return microenterprises. This report argues the compatibility of the two concerns by delineating the potential for women entrepreneurs to participate in and contribute to regional and national economic growth processes. The paper establishes the importance of gender variables to microenterprise development, explores apparent contradictions between WID and growth-oriented approaches, and proposes a strategy that bridges growth- and gender-oriented approaches and capitalizes on their strengths and complementarities. The practicalities of implementing this strategy are explored in terms of entrepreneurial behavior that impedes or enhances adoption of a growth orientation, the effect of different income strategies on enterprise growth patterns and in particular on enterprise specialization and productivity, and the special constraints and disincentives female entrepreneurs face in increasing the level and stability of their enterprise or portfolio income. G
Source: DEC abstract, PN-ABG-351 (1990). This is the source's own text, not a cited summary of the documents.
Operated in: Indonesia, West Africa, Africa South of Sahara, South Africa, Lesotho, Kenya, Niger, Bolivia, Latin America, Poland, Egypt, Zimbabwe, Southern Hemisphere, Swaziland, Honduras, El Salvador, Thailand, Colombia, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan, Sahel, Malaysia, East Africa, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Malawi, Mexico.
Years
1989 to 1996 award start, end from document years
Implementer
Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI); Michigan State University; World Education, Inc.; and 12 more 36 sources
Funder or award
USAID. Bur. for Private Enterprise. Ofc. of Small, Micro and Informal Enterprise; DHR-5448-Q-9081; DHR-5448-C-9080
Purpose
Not available yet: the program's stated purpose has not been read from its documents.
Districts, regions and facilities the program's own documents name, with what the document says it did there. · Source: sentences in the program's documents
not in the map yet: no district, region or facility is named for this program yet; only Malawi and Guatemala have place data so far
No district, region or facility is named in this program's documents yet. Place dots exist for Malawi and Guatemala only so far. Towns and natural features are not drawn.
Countries where this program operated, set by the countries its documents name most often. Countries only tagged on documents are listed apart. · Source: document tags, scope rule
Scope: global. How the scope was set is not described yet. High confidence.
How we know this
How sure we are: 0.95.
OU code 936 is a central bureau code (9xx)
evidence countries (28): Indonesia 5, South Africa 4, Kenya 3, Niger 3, Bolivia 3, Lesotho 3; top share 0.17, single-country share 0.13
When the program ran, from its start year to the latest document year. A hatched bar means the start is our estimate. · Source: award and document years
Axis: award years, end from years in documents. The start year comes from award fiscal year; the end is the latest document year, so the program may have run longer.
Who started the program, and which administration it began under. Timing only; it does not say who started it. · Source: initiative records, start year
Began during the Ronald Reagan administration (1981–1989). Based on its first award year, 1989. This places the program in time only; it does not mean that administration started it.
No document or official record says which initiative or administration launched this program.
Organizations that ran this program, from award records and document authors. Prime and sub roles are not split yet. · Source: award and document records
Named as an institutional author on documents; whether prime, sub or consortium member is not recorded. Basis: read from a record field
Labels on the program's documents, not a description of what the program did. · Source: DEC document tags
Sector profile (computed): Private sector competitiveness 26%; Financial sector (banks, credit, microfinance, markets) 20%; Social policies, regulations and systems (incl. gender, population) 13%
Topic tags (15)
DEC topic and subject tags. They describe the documents, not what the program was. Each tag opens its evidence in the drawer.
Small scale enterprisesDEC topic tag, PN-ABJ-448, PD-ABD-880 and 3 more, 1991 to 1996, confidence 1; 14 records
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Title
Year
Document
Why listed
Evaluation of the institutional aspects of the financial institutions development project, Phase I in Indonesia
Not recorded yet: support mechanisms, money rows. A missing record is not a finding. USAspending records start in FY2007; earlier obligations are missing, not zero.
Every document that cites this program, grouped by a stage label from a weak classifier. · Source: document library
Evaluation of the impacts of PRIDE/VITA [Programme Integre pour le Developpement de l'Entreprise/Volunteers in Technical Assistance, Inc.] (the Guinea rural enterprise development project)
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Fact value
Women
Document
Financial services for women -- tools for microenterprise programs : financial assistance section, an other usaid supported study/document from 1992 PN-ABL-375