Supporting women’s entrepreneurship in Ghana

Supporting women’s entrepreneurship in Ghana Dr Jennifer Jennings discusses her colleague’s field research related to women’s entrepreneurship in Ghana and the inferences for economic development organizations. In a prior Open Access Government article, Dr Jennifer Jennings from the University of Alberta shared findings from her doctoral student’s research on women entrepreneurs in the African country of Libya. Here, she summarizes findings from two field studies led by one of her departmental colleagues, Dr Angelique Slade Shantz, that were set within the African country of Ghana. As elaborated below, the research findings possess important practical implications for economic development organizations striving to foster women’s entrepreneurial activity in poverty-stricken regions – especially those with informal institutions similar to those found in the Ghanaian context.