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Women Entrepreneurs (WE): Reshaping and Sustaining the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Economy

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Artificial Intelligence Systems and the Internet of Things in the Digital Era (EAMMIS 2021)

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This paper focuses on discovering and offering pertinent and attentive evidence on the successes and challenges by women entrepreneurs in GCC. The research aims at reviewing what has been achieved so far in previous literature. The economic changes and development encouraged people to start their own businesses and follow the path of entrepreneurship. These advancements were only possible because of the continuous efforts of the GCC governments. Women are part of this and have gained recently momentum in the world of business in GCC, which reflected positively on the economy. GCC was formed in 1981 and it was inaugurated to promote the economic, social, and cultural cooperation between these Arab Gulf States. This leads us to say that sustainability is supported by women role in creating new businesses.

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    Saad Darwish, Venus D. Bunagan & Sheila M. Sison

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Darwish, S., Ahmed, U., Bunagan, V.D., Sison, S.M. (2021). Women Entrepreneurs (WE): Reshaping and Sustaining the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Economy. In: Musleh Al-Sartawi, A.M., Razzaque, A., Kamal, M.M. (eds) Artificial Intelligence Systems and the Internet of Things in the Digital Era. EAMMIS 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 239. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77246-8_42

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