Women entrepreneurs face disadvantage in securing formal loans compared to men: GIM research

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Women entrepreneurs face disadvantage in securing formal loans compared to men indicating a gender gap in access to credit, a research by Goa Institute of Mnanagement (GIM) has found and recommended that digital technology can help narrow down this gap. The study conducted has been published in the prestigious journal “Applied Economics”. The researchers investigated the data on women-owned enterprises in the unorganised sector. They studied the borrowing by these enterprises from banks, government institutions and similar formal sources of finance. Read more