A Business to Call Her Own: Identifying, Analyzing and Overcoming Constraints to Womens' Small Businesses in Latin America and the Caribbean

This study by the IDB's Multilateral Investment Fund identifies key barriers to women's businesses globally and evaluates the degree to which they constrain women's business growth in Latin America. These barriers include a lack of access to financial products and services, risk aversion, social conventions, family responsibilities, education, and training and technology.