Contents: About Global WEP xviii 1 Introduction to Women’s Entrepreneurship Policy: taking stock and moving forward 1 Colette Henry, Susan Coleman and Kate V. Lewis 2 Exploring the gender gap in women’s entrepreneurship: a narrative policy analysis 14 Patricia G. Greene and Candida Brush 3 Strategies to redress entrepreneurship gender gaps in Canada revisited 40 Barbara J. Orser 4 Entrepreneurship as a losing proposition for women: gendered outcomes of neo-liberal entrepreneurship policy in a Nordic welfare state 77 Helene Ahl, Malin Tillmar, Karin Berglund and Katarina Pettersson 5 Mapping ethnic minority women entrepreneurs’ support initiatives: experiences from the UK 105 Helen Lawton Smith and Beldina Owalla 6 Institutional work in Czech and US business assistance programmes and implications for entrepreneurial inclusion 125 Nancy C. Jurik, Alena Křížková, Marie Pospíšilová and Gray Cavender 7 Barriers to women’s entrepreneurship in Poland and institutional support 164 Ewa Lisowska and Dariusz Leszczyński 8 Beyond COVID-19: women entrepreneurs and e-commerce policy in the Asia-Pacific 194 Patrice Braun, Naomi Birdthistle and Antoinette Flynn 9 Analysis of Ghana’s and South Africa’s women entrepreneurship policies 216 Mavis S. B. Mensah and Evelyn Derera Index 243

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