Research & Reports
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- Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Small Business Owners (7500K)
A comparative study investigating the problems, experiences and barriers faced by BME female and male entrepreneurs in North West England. - Finance for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (1420K)
Report on the 2004 UK Survey of Small to Medium (SME) Finances. - Merseyside Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor 2004 Summary (658K)
Entrepreneurial activity survey results for the Merseyside region - Mind The Enterprise Gap (415K)
Asks the question "Is enterprise policy working to help businesses in deprived areas?". - Persistent Employment Disadvantage, 1974 to 2003 (192K)
Research comparing the employment prospects of disadvantaged social groups in Britain over the past 30 years. - Promoting Female Entrepreneurship (110K)
What evidence is there that women are under-represented in business ownership? - Realising Our Potential
Report summarising an event promoting the talents of Muslim women which took place on the 21st January 2008 in Bolton - Sex and Power: Who Runs Britain? (871K)
Where are the women missing from our boardrooms and public life? Whats holding them back? And what price are we - as a society and as employers - paying for their absence? - The Gender Agenda (7500K)
The Merseyside Economic Review 2004 offers a picture of improvement in Merseyside across a majority of economic indicators and examines the question of whether this strong growth is experienced and sustained by a key section of our population. - The Performance, Progress and Promise of
Women's Business Centers in the United States (143K)
A summary of three research studies focused on the performance, progress and promise of women's business centers in the United States - Women's Business Ownership: Recent Research And Policy Developments (448K)
Report to the Small Business Service in November 2006. - Women And Equality (1630K)
The impact of women's position in the labour market on pay and implications for UK productivity.