| dc.description.abstract | While the world has achieved progress towards gender equality and women’s empowerment under the Millennium Development Goals, women and girls continue to suffer discrimination and violence in every part of the world, according to United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Report released in 2016 claimed that the proportion of female account holders, the size of business, and access to obtaining commercial resources are far behind than that of men. Moreover, women are particularly difficult to obtain credit loans, resources and assets when they operate businesses.
This thesis aims to analyze the factors- business environment and policy factors- that influence density of female entrepreneurship, using the pooling regression model and random effects model based on a panel dataset of 31 countries from 2012 to 2015. Results show that having comprehensive property registration systems has positive correlation with density of female entrepreneurship under random effects model, while business environment, start-up policies, credit policies show positive correlation under the pooling model, but lack of statistical significance under the random effect model.
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