Contact: Karen Miller klm@womensworldbanking.org +1.212.556.3149 Four new leaders from academia, business, law and entrepreneurship bring diverse skills to the global nonprofit devoted to giving more low-income women access to financial services. NEW YORK – Women’s World Banking has appointed four new leaders to its Board of Directors: Patsy Doerr, Martin Ihrig, Anjali Kumar, and Janet […]
October 14, 2018, JAKARTA – An important editorial on widening women’s access to financial services by Taimur Baig, Chief Economist of DBS Bank and member of Women’s World Banking’s Southeast Advisory Council, has been published in a special IMF edition of The Jakarta Post. The 2016 Financial Inclusion Survey, carried out by the Financial Service […]
By Jamille Bigio At her food stall in the largest open-air market in Lagos, Nigeria, Amaka Charles regularly checks her cell phone for her bank account balance. She is saving for her daughter’s school fees and dreaming of a loan to expand her business beyond crayfish. Every day, she passes her few dollars of profit […]
By Ker Thao, Design Specialist With a growing gender gap in financial inclusion in Bangladesh, it is imperative to understand the behavioral barriers women face when engaging with digital financial services. Passive account openings, limited use cases, the role of cash and lack of differentiation are contributors to low usage, preventing women from being financially […]
“It’s not that the barriers are necessarily different for the rural women and the urban women. But the same barriers are greater for rural women.” In this podcast, Veronica Karpoich, Project Manager at Women’s World Banking discusses Women’s World Banking’s progress in closing the gap of financial access for one of the most challenging […]
India has experienced exponential growth and enacted innovative financial initiatives in recent years, but promising indicators of greater financial inclusion mask a concerning trend. About half of the women in India with personal bank accounts use them in a limited capacity or not at all. Women’s World Banking’s India Strategy addresses why women aren’t engaging […]
