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Industry Report

USAID: The Gender Digital Divide Working toward a global digital ecosystem for all La Côte d’Ivoire

Analyzing the Gender Digital Divide with country examples/data from India, Senegal & Indonesia
In the Media

FEATURED: Celebrating Leading Women in Rwanda’s e-Commerce Space

View on The New Times
Video

[Webinar] Reaching Financial Equality - A Call to Action

View our webinar on Reaching Financial Equality for Women report, A 10-point action plan for governments and businesses to rebuild stronger after COVID-19 by prioritizing women’s digital financial inclusion.
© © Gap Inc.
In the Media

Queen Maxima gives speech about financial equality for International Women’s Day

View on Royal Central
© © Dayan Berhe / Better Than Cash Alliance
Toolkit

VoxDev Lit: Mobile Money (literature review)

Analyzing impacts and potential of mobile money on (women’s) economic empowerment, financial inclusion and poverty reduction.
© © Shutterstock / Neeraz Chaturvedi
Toolkit

COVID-19 Exclusion Working Group (Gender) – Introduction and Strategic Enablers for Digital Payments

COVID-19 is causing unprecedented health, economic and social crises and threatens the poverty and inclusion gains that have been made over the last decade.

© © Better Than Cash Alliance
Video

[Webinar] COVID-19 Payments: Managing Risks, Ensuring Women’s Inclusion, and Communicating Clearly

This webinar responds to the question of how governments and humanitarian agencies can manage the risks associated with COVID-19 response payments, ensure women’s inclusion, and improve communications with recipients.
© ©Better Than Cash Alliance/M.M. Zahidur Rahman
In the Media

Inclusive digital payments solutions for the garment sector workers in Bangladesh

View on Business Fights Poverty
Video

What powers her loom? A story of women’s digital financial inclusion from Manipur, India

This two-minute video from the United Nations-based Better Than Cash Alliance is about Romita, a widow in the North East of India who opened a bank account to receive a government loan for a power loom.

© © Better Than Cash Alliance / Allan Gichigi
In the Media

Op-Ed: As COVID-19 presents Africa with conflicting choices between relief for today and investing for tomorrow, here’s why it needs to consider digitization

View on CNBC Africa
© © BSR
In the Media

Digital Wages in Bangladesh Benefit Women

View on BORGEN Magazine
© © Better Than Cash Alliance
Industry Report

Mobile Coverage and its Impact on Digital Financial Services

“The study finds that the type of mobile coverage provided has a significant effect on the DFS UI and type of mobile phone that can be used for DFS access.Feature phones and Unstructured Supplementary Service Data transactions continue to be the choice for the vast majority users.”
© © Better Than Cash Alliance
Industry Report

Inclusive Growth: The Global Challenges of Social Inequality and Financial Inclusion

The book outlines a journey from enabling models of government and business to strategies for creating both financial and social inclusion and entrepreneurism as mechanisms for sustainable and inclusive growth.
© Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Frederic Courbet
Industry Report

Closing gender gap through fintech

This ADBI brief discusses policy interventions that can help governments in the Asia Pacific region leverage fintech to close the gender gap in financial inclusion. It calls for ensuring tailored services that promote ease of use, flexible regulation to promote access and active coordination among relevant government ministries to enhance financial education. 
© Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Frederic Courbet
Industry Report

The mobile gender gap: Asia

The top barriers to mobile ownership in Asia are literacy and skills and affordability, with family disapproval also featuring as a major barrier in parts of South Asia.

© Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Frederic Courbet
Industry Report

How greater financial control impacts gender norms

New NBER paper finds that transferring money directly into women’s accounts and providing them financial training led to their increased participation in the labor force.