... regions worldwide. Hansen and Rand (2014) document varying degrees of gender-based differences in accessing external finance of manufacturing firms in 16 Sub-Saharan African countries, depending on how the financing obstacle is measured. Finally, gender-based differences in the external financing...

... obstacles than other firms. The authors argue that poor performance and lack of technical expertise required to access finance are some of the reasons behind greater financing obstacles experienced by these firms. The study’s results are robust across different geographic regions. The authors also show...