Poor women entrepreneurs lessons from Asian countries

What are the obstacles faced by women entrepreneurs, and how may training programmes effectively address their wider need for confidence-building as well as business orientation? A workshop sponsored by the British Council on the development of microenterprises by women in Asian countries, held at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in August 1992, focused on some of these issues. The important conclusions that emanated from the discussions are summarized in this article.