Women's Economic Empowerment

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Blog Post
The Clock is Ticking on Financial Inclusion and a Focus on Women Can Help
Mayra Buvinic
May 14, 2018
A sense of urgency was present at a recent World Bank Spring meeting on financial inclusion. This is not surprising, given the Bank’s ambitious goal of Universal Financial Access by 2020. Two years to go and globally about 1.7 billion adults remain unbanked—close to 1 billion of the...
CGD NOTES
Unequal Ventures: Results from a Baseline Study of Gender and Entrepreneurship in East Java, Indonesia
Mayra Buvinic
and
Firman Witoelar
April 30, 2018
A study of women and men business owners in East Java offers a unique opportunity to analyze characteristics of entrepreneurs and their businesses by gender for a country where such systematic data are scarce. The study is one of two randomized controlled trials launched in 2015 to assess the power ...
BRIEFS
Unequal Ventures: Baseline Study of Gender and Entrepreneurship in East Java, Indonesia (Factsheet)
Mayra Buvinic
and
Tanvi Jaluka
April 26, 2018
Women own a large and growing proportion of businesses in Indonesia, estimated at over half of all micro, small, and medium enterprises. However, women’s economic outcomes are not equal to those of men. 
Blog Post
The Next Billion Customers: Is Technology the Key to Closing the Global Gap in Financial Services?
Tanvi Jaluka
April 25, 2018
Over 1.7 billion adults worldwide remain unbanked, but two-thirds of them own a mobile phone that could easily connect them to the financial services they need. Governments could leverage digital payments to bring wages, pensions, and services directly to their beneficiaries. Private sector banks co...
Blog Post
Chart of the Week: Gender Pay Gaps around the World Are Bigger Than You Think, and Have Almost Nothing to Do with Girls Schooling
Justin Sandefur
March 30, 2018
While I think it's silly to argue we spend too much on girls' education, perhaps it's reasonable to ask whether a concern with gender equality and a cold hard look at recent data would lead anyone to put their marginal dollar into girls' schooling over, say, campaigning for gender quota...
BRIEFS
Mindful Saving: Exploring the Power of Savings for Women (Factsheet)
Mayra Buvinic
and
Tanvi Jaluka
March 22, 2018
Mobile savings hold great promise for empowering women entrepreneurs. Women are often disproportionately burdened by high transaction costs to access savings accounts.
CGD NOTES
Mindful Saving: Exploring the Power of Savings for Women
Mayra Buvinic
and
Tanvi Jaluka
March 22, 2018
Mobile savings hold great promise, because they can considerably reduce transaction costs that can be unduly heavy for women. Two questions guide us: how can we encourage more women microentrepreneurs to access formal savings accounts, and is mobile saving a particularly fitting solution? This serie...