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Queen Maxima gives speech about financial equality for International Women’s Day
VoxDev Lit: Mobile Money (literature review)
Analyzing impacts and potential of mobile money on (women’s) economic empowerment, financial inclusion and poverty reduction.
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.
Inclusive digital payments solutions for the garment sector workers in Bangladesh
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
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.
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.
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.
Voices to Choices : Bangladesh's Journey in Women's Economic Empowerment
This book analyzes advances in women’s economic engagement and empowerment in rural and urban Bangladesh.
Designing "smart" to overcome gender bias
Women face additional constraints because of their gender that affect their economic performance. New Oxford University Press paper suggests that specific design features - repeated micro-lending, variation in loan terms, private savings accounts, etc - in financial services can yield more positive economic outcomes for women.
