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'Pakistan is good at launching women’s businesses. It’s bad at sustaining them'
Pakistan has become very good at facilitating one specific moment in a woman’s entrepreneurial life: the start. Awards celebrate founding a business, loan schemes are measured by how many women receive disbursements, launch events feature photographers and press releases, and there is no shortage of panels that encourage women to take the leap. What there is far less of is any real accounting for what happens after: for instance, whether the business survives its third year, whether it ever becomes profitable, whether the woman who launched it is still running it five years later, or whether t...
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