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What do We Know About Interventions to Increase Women’s Econ...
The World Bank’s South Asia Region Gender Innovation Lab is conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions with direct or indirect effects on measures of women’s economic empowermen...
What do We Know About Interventions to Increase Women’s Econ...
The World Bank’s South Asia Region Gender Innovation Lab (SAR GIL) is conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions with direct or indirect effects on measures of women’s economic ...
Does Financial Development Reduce Gender Disparity in Top Ma...
Women often face more hurdles than men in obtaining finance, especially when credit supply is limited and financial markets are less developed. As a result, owners of firms may prefer men over women a...
Gendered Laws and Women’s Financial Inclusion (2023)
This paper documents the relationship between legal gender equality and the use of financial services, using individual-level data from 148 developed and developing economies. The analysis, which comb...
Her FinTech Edge – Market Insights for Inclusive Growth (202...
Digital financial services (DFS) have been considered a game changer for women’s financial inclusion and economic empowerment. Despite the potential of DFS, barriers to access and adopt DFS persist. F...
Women’s Financial Inclusion Toolkit – Paving the Way for Wom...
The purpose of this toolkit is to help practitioners working in developing countries advance women’s financial inclusion and navigate the existing barriers. Financial inclusion is a catalyst towards g...
Supply-Side Gender-Disaggregated Data for Advancing Financia...
The gender gap in financial inclusion continues to be unacceptably high in most developing countries, highlighting the need to prioritize policies that promote gender equity in the financial sector mo...
Facilitating the School to Work Transition of Young Women (2...
In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), the school-to-work transition is more challenging for girls than boys due to societal norms. Young women who drop out of school are more likely than young boy...
When Will Global Gender Gaps Close? (2023)
This paper shows that, absent a significant step up in policy efforts, gender gaps may never close. Using Markov chains, a common approach in macroeconomics, it analyzes the dynamics of the cross-coun...
Lawful Progress: Unveiling the Laws That Reshape Women’s Wor...
This paper examines the impact of women’s legal rights on labor force participation decisions made by women and men through a granular analysis of 35 gendered laws. The findings identify nine key laws...
What Works in Supporting Women-Led Businesses? (2024)
This working paper reviews the literature on strategies to support women entrepreneurs in improving their business outcomes. It focuses on interventions designed to address four areas of constraints t...
Scaling Equity: Lessons from Accelerators Supporting Women-l...
Investing in gender-diverse companies leads to stronger business outcomes, yet in emerging markets, only 11% of startups that attain seed funding are led by women, and this gap grows over subsequent s...