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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.
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.
Women’s Financial Inclusion Toolkit
This toolkit is designed to aid the design and implementation of women's financial inclusion and empowerment programs.
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
Bridging the Gender Gap: Mobile Access and Usage in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Why is it important for women to be connected?
Bandhan's Targeting the Hard Core Poor Program: A Qualitative Study on Participants' Ascent out of Extreme Poverty
Qualitative Assessment of the THP Program in West Bengal, India
Capital, Skills and the Economic Lives of the Poor: Recent Evidence From Field Experiments
Can relaxing capital and skills constraints transform the economic lives of poor women?
Are Women Self Help Group Members Economically More Empowered in Left-Run Municipalities?
Measuring economic empowerment attained by SHG members
The Vulnerability of 'Self-Help': Women and Microfinance in South India
Examining the role of state institutions in the microfinance sector
Microfinance and Innovative Financing for Gender Equality: Approaches, Challenges, and Strategies
Paper presented at Eighth Commonwealth Women's Affairs Ministers Meeting