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Women & Money: Insights and a Path to Close the Gender Gap
This paper presents research findings on the key challenges women face in accessing digital financial services and the design opportunities for the financial sector, policymakers and regulators, the philanthropic sector, NGOs, and designers everywhere.
Business Her Own Way: Creating Livelihoods Through Informal Online Commerce
This Focus Note outlines the characteristics of informal online commerce (IOC), maps the personas of the women who engage in it, and provides guidance to funders looking to support women to generate livelihoods through IOC.
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.
Women’s Access to Cash Transfers in Light of COVID-19: The Case of Pakistan
How to ensure more women are able to access emergency cash programs
The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2020
Findings based on surveys in 15 low- and middle-income countries
Acquisition and Engagement Strategies to Reach Women With Digital Financial Services
Using behavioral and design techniques to remove barriers for low-income women
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
Are Pakistan’s Women Entrepreneurs Being Served by the Microfinance Sector?
Evaluating the impact and outreach of Pakistan’s microfinance sector on its women entrepreneurs
Productive Safety Nets for Women in Extreme Poverty: Lessons from Pilot Projects in India and Pakistan
SOAS Discussion Paper: Analyzing Programme Implementations in West Bengal, India and Sindh, Pakistan
Does a Picture Paint a Thousand Words? Evidence from a Microcredit Marketing Experiment
Examining the impact of psychological cues on women's take up of credit