What Do We Mean When We Talk About Empowerment?
What do we mean when we say a woman is empowered? How can progress toward empowerment be measured?
Enhancing Financial Inclusion for Women in Nigeria
Even though Nigeria has a higher level of financial inclusion than Sub-Saharan Africa across three of five indicators, the gender gap in Nigeria is higher. What can be done to lower the barriers to female financial inclusion?
Catalyzing Women’s Financial Inclusion: The Role of Data
For governments, the collection of sex-disaggregated data begins a virtuous cycle, where its availability informs stronger, evidence-based policymaking and helps regulators evaluate the effectiveness of policies intended to promote financial inclusion.
Policy into Practice: Zambia Advances Women’s Financial Inclusion
What can stakeholders do to facilitate women’s access to finance? How can they ensure that women can participate in the economy without facing constraints and barriers limiting their success?
5 Ways Digital Payments can Bring Women into the Economy
When women are locked out of the formal economy, development suffers and growth stagnates. Wiping out gender discrimination in financial access is not easy, but certainly incorporating more digital tools can help bridge the gap between men and women.
What Excludes Women from Formal Finance in the Arab States?
Women are less than half as likely as men to have an account in the Arab world. Why such a dismal record?
Why Women Self-Help Group Members Make for Good Bank Agents
Pilot projects that train women self-help group members as bank agents in rural areas in India are proving to be promising.
Banking on Change: Enabling Women’s Access to Financial Services
Women face barriers in proving their identity, traveling to a bank, opening an account, and building a credit score that all contribute to the gender gap in access to financial services.
How Hard Is It to Use Mobile Money as a Rural Bangladeshi Woman?
Women in Bangladesh have one of the lowest rates of mobile money usage in the world. Does the dearth of usage indicate a lack of appropriate products and services? Just how hard is it to use mobile money if you are a rural Bangladeshi woman?