In urban Bolivia, for example, women are much more likely to be self-employed in the informal sector with no legal status, regulations or standard work conditions and low pay.

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In Brazil and Turkey, around half of non-farm workers are in the informal sector.

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And due to the constraints of offline commerce businesses, women-led companies tend to be small, informal and concentrated in the commerce sector, where profits and margins are low (and often use less credit).

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Almost two-thirds of the world's workers are still employed in the informal sector.

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