Small Business Financing Profiles: Women Entrepreneurs, October 2010

Small Business, Tourism and Marketplace Services

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Small Business Financing Profiles: Women Entrepreneurs, October 2010

This paper describes the recent financing activities of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) majority-owned by women in Canada. General business characteristics and financial growth performances are compared with SMEs majority-owned by men to highlight past and current gender differences. An update of a 2004 report on women entrepreneurs, this paper is part of the SME Financing Data Initiative, a program intended to build a comprehensive knowledge on SME financing in Canada.

Date: 2010
Format: HTML, PDF
Catalogue number: Iu188-4/2-2010
ISBN: 978-1-100-52410-8

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