Within Reach: How Digital Wages That Work for Women Can Support Bangladesh’s Economic Future
This report shares HERproject’s experience of supporting 70 garment factories in Bangladesh, with a combined workforce of around 170,000, majority women, to digitize their wages.
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.
Understanding Micro- and Small-Growth Entrepreneurs in Vietnam, Pakistan and Peru
This report provides an overview of "the current state of strivers" across these countries with an aim to understand the emerging unmet needs through market assessments.
Narrowing the Gender Gap in Mobile Banking
Evidence from field experiments in Bangladesh examining the gender gap in the adoption and usage of mobile banking
Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Sri Lanka
Findings from a survey and interviews with SME clients of financial institutions
Women’s Access to Cash Transfers in Light of COVID-19: The Case of Pakistan
A Majority of India’s Poor Women May Miss COVID-19 PMJDY Cash Transfers
This brief discusses some ideas for how to increase access to the social safety net during a crisis.
S-Commerce Landscape - Bangladesh
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.