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Women-led businesses on the rise in Vietnam

 This file photo shows Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao, President and CEO of Vietnamese airline carrier Vietjet, speaking during a press conference in Dubai-AFP Photo

Vietnam, an emerging market in Southeast Asia is making progress in addressing the issue of gender equality. An International Finance Corporation (IFC) 2017 report on ‘Women-owned enterprises in Vietnam: Perceptions and Potential,’ showed that 57 percent of women-owned businesses in Vietnam are microenterprises, 42 percent are small-medium enterprises (SMEs) and one percent are large enterprises. Vietnam’s central government is targeting to have one million enterprises by 2020, of which more than a third will be owned by women.
Article via The Asean Post.
 

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