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Empowering Women on a Journey Towards Digital Financial Capability
This report focuses on building the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for customers to engage with digital financial services.
Evidence Review of Women's Groups and COVID-19: Impacts, Challenges, and Policy Implications for Savings Groups in Africa
This brief presents emerging evidence from studies in diverse African contexts on how COVID-19 has affected savings groups and how these groups have helped mitigate the pandemic’s negative consequences in sub-Saharan Africa.
From Cash to Digital Wage Payments in the Philippines
This report discusses why it is imperative to capitalize on this momentum in the wake of COVID-19 to ensure wider adoption and usage of digital payments, particularly among low-income women.
Insular Life, Philippines – The Case for Insuring Women for a Better Tomorrow
This case study showcases the business case for women's insurance in the Philippines.
Reaching Financial Equality for Women
This 10-point action plan for governments and businesses shares practical steps to help end the continued economic exclusion of women through digital financial inclusion.
The Fintech Gender Gap
Looking at a survey of over 27,000 adults from 28 major economies, this paper suggests potential explanations for the gender gap and implications for challenges in fostering financial inclusion with new technology.
Algorithmic Bias, Financial Inclusion, and Gender
A primer on opening up new credit to women in emerging economies
Evidence Review on Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) and Its Relationship With Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE)
Understanding the evidence of designed interventions to prevent and respond to VAWG
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
Risk Sharing Facilities: Mobilizing Finance for Women-Led MSMEs
Toolkit for policymakers, regulators, supervisors involved in the formulation and implementation of policy and regulation that advance access to finance for women-led MSMEs