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Women’s Agent Network—the Missing Link in India’s Financial Inclusion Story: A Supply-Side Perspective
The business correspondent model in India enables the banking system to expand its outreach at a low cost and offer essential financial services in remote and underserved areas. This paper share a supply-side perspective on challenges and opportunities for expanding women agent network in India.
Women & Money: Insights and a Path to Close the Gender Gap
This paper presents research findings on the key challenges women face in accessing digital financial services and the design opportunities for the financial sector, policymakers and regulators, the philanthropic sector, NGOs, and designers everywhere.
Towards Responsible Digitization of Merchants in Rural India for COVID-19 Recovery
These 10 recommendations aim to unlock the impact of fintech in merchant digitization, particular for women, and to further India’s progress on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Enhancing Women’s Economic Empowerment Through Digital Cash Transfers: Analysis of the Digitize/Direct/Design Criteria Applied to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Bihar, India
Evaluating digital financial services for women’s economic empowerment
Enhancing Women’s Economic Empowerment Through Digital Cash Transfers: What Do We Learn from the Digitize/Direct/Design (D3) Criteria in the Case of Benazir Income Support Program in Pakistan?
Social support program assessment based on 27.36 million households surveys
Closing the Gender Gap: Opportunities for the Women’s Mobile Financial Services Market in Bangladesh
Findings from quantitative survey of 4000 women on mobile financial services
A Buck Short: What Financial Diaries Tell Us About Building Financial Services That Matter to Low-Income Women
Why do women in emerging markets access and use formal financial services less than men?
Are Pakistan’s Women Entrepreneurs Being Served by the Microfinance Sector?
Evaluating the impact and outreach of Pakistan’s microfinance sector on its women entrepreneurs
What If It Had Been Lehman Brothers & Sisters? The Importance of Building Gender-Diverse Microfinance Institutions
Promoting an inclusive work environment in MFIs
From Micro to Small and Medium Enterprise: Catering to the Evolving needs of Female Clients
Paper presented at the 2011 Global Microcredit Summit, November 14-17, 2011, Valladolid, Spain