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Growth
Training Programmes
Women Entrepreneurship
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Abstract
Women's entrepreneurship is a crucial stimulus to inclusive growth of an economy. The study reconnoitres the role of government policy interventions on women entrepreneurs’ economic growth in the services sector by picking the Darrang and Kamrup (M) districts of Assam, India. It is founded on the primary data collected from 384 participants and uses the descriptive statistics and Pearson chi-square test to determine the association between institutional support variables and the metrics of enterprise development, i.e., net profit and employment generation. The results also show that 59.1 percent of the respondents have not gotten the benefit of government schemes, and there is no statistically significant effect of government schemes on profitability or the generation of employment. Even though net profit is not influenced by training programs, employment generation is positively related to training programs (p < 0.01). The major challenges are lack of awareness, complicated loan processes, and sociocultural barriers to accessibility of government policy interventions. The study has found that the current policy interventions are limited with gaps in implementation and has highlighted the necessity of the need to have an integrated intervention that combines financial assistance, development of skills, and institutional change to improve the growth of women-led businesses.
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