CEEG Seminar Series: Do interactions with local institutions improve the performance of women-owned businesses? Evidence from Vietnam, Myanmar and Mozambique

On Wednesday, 16 October 2024, Hanna Berkel, Research Fellow at the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), will present a forthcoming working paper titled ‘Do interactions with local institutions improve the performance of women-owned businesses? Evidence from Vietnam, Myanmar and Mozambique.’

The seminar is part of the CEEG Seminar Series, organized under the Inclusive growth in Mozambique (IGM) programme. The seminars offer a forum to share and discuss ongoing research on topics related to the work of the IGM programme and to foster a culture of research at the faculty and at UEM in general.

The seminars take place at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Eduardo Mondlane (UEM). They are public and open to all. The presentation is in Portuguese.

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About the study

Several studies compare the performance of companies owned by men and women and find lower productivity in companies owned by women. Some of the reasons for differential performance can be attributed to gender disparities in access to local institutions. 

This research aims to analyze how access to local institutions can differentially affect the performance of private companies owned and managed by men and women. Given the paucity of data, literature from developing countries can rarely compare the differential contribution between business owners and managers. 

Thanks to unique datasets from three different countries, the study could assess the contribution of local institutions to the performance of private companies owned and managed by men and women in Mozambique, Vietnam and Myanmar.