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Gender-Transformative Business Models in Agriculture
Insights from five leading agricultural companies help us understand how businesses can advance gender equity by taking specific steps to address harmful gender norms and reduce gender gaps.
By Jamie Anderson, Cesar Maita Azpiri & Renée Hunter
FinDev Guide
FinDev Guide to Women's Financial Inclusion
This Guide features a curated selection of research and blogs on women's financial inclusion, from gender lens investing to financial diaries of women traders.
FinDev Interview
Finding Our Collective Direction Towards Women's Economic Empowerment
Aude de Montesquiou, Global Facilitator for FinEquity, discusses the community of practice's current work and future ambitions to support women.
FinDev Blog
Blazing a Trail for Women’s Financial Inclusion in Nigeria
The Central Bank of Nigeria has identified eight Strategic Imperatives. With their respective communities of practice, they aim to close the country’s financial inclusion gender gap.
By Sophia O. Abu, Central Bank of Nigeria
FinDev Blog
Applying a Gender Lens to Digital Remittances
Digital remittances can form a gateway to better financial health and inclusion for migrants and their families. Yet one key factor influencing remittance behavior is often overlooked: gender.
By Uloma Ogba, Julie Kamau & Marup Hossain, UNCDF
FinDev Blog
Is Fintech Always Inclusive?
An IMF working paper looks at who fintech is helping and who it is leaving behind, using cross-country and emerging fintech data to see if fintech use is associated with narrowing class, rural and gender divides.
By Yoke Wang Tok & Dyna Heng, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
FinDev Blog
What Findex 2021 Tells Us About Financial Inclusion in India
Digital financial services are helping drive financial inclusion, but infrastructural barriers remain.
By Niyati Agrawal & Rakshith Ponnathpur, Dvara Research
FinDev Blog
How to Invest With a Gender Lens
While adopting gender-smart strategies is something every investor should strive for - both because it is the right thing to do and because it makes good business sense - there is no straightforward roadmap for how to do it.
By Elvina Garayeva & Noémie Renier, Incofin IM
FinDev Blog
Financial Inclusion in the Wake of the Pandemic
While poor and women borrowers suffered the most, they also benefited the most from gaining access to financial services, according to a survey of Triple Jump's partners.
By Till Bruckner & Juan Luis Podesta
FinDev Blog
The Path to Financial Inclusion Must Include Saving in Small Groups
The sector needs to transition from the idea that financial inclusion means borrowing (and sometimes saving) in a financial institution and give more power to informal savings through the millions of groups that already exist.
By Jeffrey Ashe, Grassroots Finance Action