ABSTRACT
This chapter explores women's experiences as small-scale entrepreneurs in a variety of locations throughout the world. It also presents an overview of women's experiences as small-scale entrepreneurs, based upon research conducted by scholars, development practitioners, and feminist organizers throughout Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America. The informal sector is least problematic if we restrict it to focus on microenterprises as the primary economic units that constitute it: microenterprises. Governmental and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and agencies that address poverty and unemployment are increasingly looking to projects that assist women's microentrepreneurial activities. Governmental and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and agencies that address poverty and unemployment are increasingly looking to projects that assist women's microentrepreneurial activities. One possible evaluation framework is to ask whether and how policies and strategies might move from viewing program participants as recipients with needs to citizens with rights.
