A study on factors influencing performance of women entrepreneurs in Tiruchirappalli district, Tamilnadu

Economic growth and development of the country is determined by human, physical and financial resources. An economy can move on to higher levels of growth either by acquiring a larger quantum of the factors of production or through technical progress. The Industrial Revolution in the western world took place more than two centuries ago and provided greater impetus and prospects to women entrepreneurs. Whereas in India, the development of industries at a rapid pace and extension of facilities for development of women entrepreneurs are mostly a post-independence phenomenon and, that too, only from the 1970's onwards. Economic growth and development of the country is determined by human, physical and financial resources. An economy can move on to higher levels of growth either by acquiring a larger quantum of the factors of production or through technical progress. The objective of any planned development is to develop human resources to their brimming utilization.