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The Nollywood Nudge: An Entertaining Approach to Saving

This paper investigates the immediate and medium-term behavioral response to an emotional trigger designed to affect biases in intertemporal financial decisions. 

Aidan Coville, Vincenzo Di Maro, Felipe Alexander Dunsch, Siegfried Zottel, World Bank
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Enhancing Women’s Economic Empowerment Through Digital Cash Transfers - Digitize/Direct/Design: The D3 Criteria

Is digitizing cash transfer programs to poor women the answer to closing the gender gap?
Wendy Chamberlin, Liz Kellison, Jeni Klugman, Jamie Zimmerman, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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Gender Centrality of Mobile Financial Services in Bangladesh

The findings of this research are based on a qualitative survey with 76 respondents which aimed to make sense of how and why women use DFS and offer recommendations for policy and practice.

Akhand Jyoti Tiwari, Bhavana Srivastava, Rahul Chatterjee, Ana Klincic Andrews, United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)
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Measuring Numeracy for Financial Inclusion: Results of a Pilot Test

What can be done about the numeracy skills gaps preventing people’s involvement in formal financial transactions?
Brett Hudson Matthews, CGAP Background Documents
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The Economic Lives of Young Women in the Time of Ebola

Lessons from an Empowerment Program
Oriana Bandiera, Niklas Buehren, Markus Goldstein, Imran Rasul, Andrea Smurra,
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Enhancing Women’s Economic Empowerment Through Digital Cash Transfers: Digitize/Direct/Design (D3) Criteria - An Application to Tanzania

Diagnostic for Tanzania's national Productive Social Safety Net assistance program
Flora Myamba, Caroline Pulver, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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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
Simone Schaner, Charity Troyer Moore, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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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
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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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
Prabir Barooah, Samveet Sahoo, Sunil Bhat, Denny George, International Finance Corporation (IFC)
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Mobile Technologies and Digitized Data to Promote Access to Finance for Women in Agriculture

Taking stock and analyzing digital financial services targeted to female farmers
Varangis, P., Buchenau, J., Ono, T., Sberro-Kessler, R., Chen, R., Parizat, R., Okumura, A., World Bank