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Jul
17
2019
1:00—3:00 PM
June 27, 2019
Mobile savings can reduce the transaction costs for women business owners, allow women to more safely account for their money, and help women develop more agency in their households.
Please join us at this event where we will present and discuss the findings from the scientific evaluation...
Nov
13
2018
9:00—10:30 AM
October 17, 2018
Over 1 billion women lack access to financial services due to economic and social barriers, time and mobility constraints, and discrimination Financial services delivered digitally can address these barriers. Closing the global gender gap in access to finance provides an opportunity for the private ...
Jan
31
2018
10:00—11:30 AM
December 05, 2017
Women are overrepresented in the informal sector worldwide, often stuck in dangerous, insecure, low-paid jobs. Waste picking in particular is a highly vulnerable and risky form of informal employment. In 1995, India’s Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) organized women waste pickers...
Nov
15
2017
10:00—12:00 PM
October 25, 2017
The terminology describing economic programs for women has changed: actions to ‘empower women economically’ have replaced efforts to ‘increase women’s productivity and incomes.’ But how can we actually measure ‘economic empowerment’? Last November, CGD,...
Mar
22
2017
2:30—4:00 PM
March 15, 2017
Women’s economic empowerment is critical for achieving women’s rights and gender equality, poverty reduction, and economic growth. Yet urban spaces pose significant barriers to progress, including limited mobility, safety risks, and lack of information and networks to access better econo...
Nov
3
2016
9:30—12:30 PM
September 30, 2016
Co-hosted by Data2X/UN Foundation, the International Development Research Centre, and CGD, the session will discuss, first, new evidence on what works to empower women economically and, second, how to measure the subjective dimension of economic empowerment. Interventions such as savings and mi...