Let’s Get Creative: Innovative Ways to Finance Women in Latin America
Building an investor ecosystem for female entrepreneurs can help close persistent funding gaps.
This article is adapted from AQ’s special report on closing the gender gap The evidence is clear: Investing in women is good business If women in every country were to play an identical role to men in markets, McKinsey Global Institute calculates as much as $28 trillion, or an extra 26%, could be added to global GDP by 2025 In Latin America and the Caribbean, one of the most entrepreneurial regions in the world, we also have one of the highest failure rates for female entrepreneurs Without funding, women-owned businesses are unable to grow beyond the category of a microenterprise or...
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