Women Entrepreneurs in the Haitian Economy: From Markets to Public Policy
Summary: A 126-page study in the Cahiers du PNUD series on women entrepreneurs in Haiti, from the market traders upward, and on what public policy would have to do to support them. Copyright UNDP Haiti 2015.
Key Findings
- Finds unpaid work carried by women accounts for more than 50 percent of men's total working time, which is the measure that reframes women's economic contribution.
- Compares open and broad unemployment rates by sex and by rural or urban residence, so the gap is stated on both definitions rather than the headline one.
- Tracks real earnings by sex for the population aged 10 and over across 2007 and 2012, and underemployment rates by type over the same years.
- Distributes weekly working hours by sex, which is what makes the unpaid-work finding measurable rather than asserted.
- Published in the Cahiers du PNUD series, covering women entrepreneurs from market traders upward.
Full Description
Women's enterprise in Haiti is mostly discussed through the madan sara and the informal market, and this study covers that ground but continues upward into formal small and medium enterprise and into the policy instruments that reach or fail to reach women owners. Read with the FinScope MSME survey for the enterprise-level statistics and with the informal economy baseline study for the sector definitions.
How to cite
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), 2015, Women Entrepreneurs in the Haitian Economy: From Markets to Public Policy, https://www.undp.org/fr/haiti/publications/entrepreneures-dans-leconomie-haitienne-des-marches-aux-politiques-publiques