Women, Business and the Law (WBL): Entrepreneurship Topic

The Entrepreneurship topic evaluates the economy’s laws regarding nondiscrimination in access to credit and gender-responsive procurement, as well as whether there are mandatory quotas for women on public corporate boards; policies that promote women’s entrepreneurship and financial inclusion, including the availability of regularly published sex-disaggregated data on women’s business activities, government-led programs or national strategies to facilitate women’s access to financial services, and government-led programs to support women entrepreneurs; and expert perceptions on how effectively laws on women’s ability to establish and run a business are enforced in practice.