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Empowering Women Entrepreneurs in the Himalayas (2024)
Over half (52%) of women-owned small businesses in Nepal find it challenging to access finance. Learn more about two women entrepreneurs who are growing their businesses thanks to loans from Global IM...
A Decade of Change: The Surge of Financial Inclusion in Sub-...
Drawing on a decade of Global Findex data, this blog highlights financial inclusion progress in Sub-Saharan Africa, where account ownership has more than doubled since 2011 – to 49% of adults. Yet, si...
Meet Fátima Almeida, the Entrepreneur Revolutionizing Digita...
Read about how a fintech company started by a young Angolan woman is empowering people to participate in the digital economy by facilitating digital payments and promoting financial inclusion. In 2016...
Growing Up, Growing Informal: Gender Differences in Financia...
Drawing on Finscope/FinAccess data from Kenya and South Africa, this blog explores gendered patterns in how people use financial services over their lifetimes. It shows a rapid rise in the adoption of...
Supply-Side Gender-Disaggregated Data for Advancing Financia...
Since the early 2010s, global initiatives and country-level efforts have improved the availability and use of gender-disaggregated data on financial inclusion. However, significant gaps persist, parti...
Gendered Laws and Women’s Financial Inclusion (2023)
Using individual level data from 148 developed and developing economies, this paper examines the relationship between legal gender equality and the use of financial services. The analysis, which combi...
Women and Equitable Growth in a Resource-Constrained World U...
This paper makes a case for expanding access to affordable credit for women entrepreneurs in the Global South. It emphasizes the need to increase women’s economic participation and access to affordabl...
Financial Inclusion and Women’s Bargaining Power: Evidence f...
Using household data from the Indian National Family Health Survey, this article concludes that owning a bank account has a statistically significant positive impact on women's bargaining power and ab...
Women’s Financial Inclusion, Digital Financial Services, and...
This case study analyzes how women’s financial inclusion policies were leveraged before and after the pandemic in Bangladesh. Key measures included expanding unconditional cash transfers through digit...
Do Women’s Financial Literacy Accelerate Financial Inclusion...
This study finds that different aspects of financial literacy – such as savings, debt, investment, and financial planning management practices – positively impact women’s financial inclusion in Pakist...
Advancing Women’s Economic Power in Africa Through Financial...
In this podcast, Rachel Toku-Appiah, Director of Program Advocacy and Communications for Africa at the Gates Foundation, draws on her decades of experience to discuss the current state of financial ac...
Advancing Women’s Economic Power in Africa Through Financial...
In this podcast, Rachel Toku-Appiah, Director of Program Advocacy and Communications for Africa at the Gates Foundation, draws on her decades of experience to discuss the current state of financial ac...