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Factors that Facilitate and Inhibit Entrepreneurship in Indi

Indian society has always treated women as an epicenter of Shakti (power).Many other civilizations have also acknowledged that the hands that cradle can also change the world. At the higher end of the society, women entrepreneurs were not a rare phenomenon, but this is now even percolating to lower...

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Main Author: Parekh, Mohit
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2013
Subjects:
Hul
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