The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2020
This third edition of GSMA Connected Women’s The Mobile Gender Gap Report considers how women’s mobile access and use are changing, and how efforts to reach women with technology should evolve alongside.
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Women Entrepreneurs and Effective Banking in Emerging Markets
Women Entrepreneurs and Effective Banking in Emerging Markets
This case study on BLC Bank in Lebanon from Oxford University’s Saïd Business School showcases how the bank is boosting the country’s economy and the financial inclusion of women while also achieving business success through its We Initiative women’s program.
IMF Financial Access Survey 2018
IMF Financial Access Survey 2018
The 9th Annual IMF Financial Access Survey covers 189 countries spanning more than 10 years. This Trends and Development report highlights some of the key takeaways from the data, including progress on women’s financial inclusion.
What Can Behavioural Science Tell Us About the Financial Decisions of Women?
What Can Behavioural Science Tell Us About the Financial Decisions of Women?
A growing number of studies in the field of behavioural science are examining factors that influence financial decisions. This paper reports on the effectiveness of various behavioural interventions that could reasonably be applied by financial services providers to increase women’s access to and usage of financial services.
Women’s Financial Inclusion Data Partnership Principles
Women’s Financial Inclusion Data Partnership Principles
Stakeholders need a complete picture of the gap in women’s financial inclusion to be able to close it – and data is critical to this. These tenets reflect the aspirations and commitments of the WFID partnership (comprising the Alliance for Financial Inclusion, Data2X, the Global Banking Alliance for Women, the Inter-American Development Bank, IDB Invest, the International Finance Corporation, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank Group) to increasing women’s access to and use of financial services by promoting the collection and use of sex-disaggregated data.
The Way Forward: How Data Can Propel Full Financial Inclusion for Women
The Way Forward: How Data Can Propel Full Financial Inclusion for Women
Data is one of the key elements necessary to create inclusive financial systems around the world. With more and improved WFI data, policymakers can design and monitor WFI interventions, and financial service providers can build a business case for targeting women as clients. This strategy document from the Women’s Financial Inclusion Data (WFID) partnership argues that only through a unified and sector-wide approach to the collection, analysis and use of gender data will women’s full financial inclusion be realized.
Debunking the Pink Card: The Business Case for Women’s Credit Cards – Mastercard
Debunking the Pink Card: The Business Case for Women’s Credit Cards
Diana Robino shared how Mastercard is championing women’s economic empowerment and the strong business case and development case for payment solutions for women at the 2017 GBA Summit.
Doing Business 2017
Doing Business 2017
Doing Business 2017 is the 14th in a series of annual reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. This edition introduces a gender dimension in four of the 11 topics sets.
Digital Financial Solutions to Advance Women’s Economic Participation
Digital Financial Solutions to Advance Women’s Economic Participation
This report from the World Bank Development Research Group, the Better Than Cash Alliance, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Women’s World Banking, given to the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion, examines how governments, the private sector and development organizations can bring more women into the global economy through digital financial services.
Assessment Paper: Gender Inequality
Assessment Paper: Gender Inequality
This assessment considers the worldwide costs from 1900 to 2050 of continued gender inequality. The main cost is considered to be the inefficient underutilization of women in production.
Preliminary Benefit-Cost Assessment of the Final OWG Outcome
Preliminary Benefit-Cost Assessment of the Final OWG Outcome
The Copenhagen Consensus Center provides information on which targets will do the most social good, relative to their costs. More than 30 of the world’s top economists have assessed the 169 targets from the Final Outcome of the Open Working Group (OWG) document into one of five categories, based on evidence of the economic, social and environmental costs and benefits.
Gender Equality Assessment Paper
Gender Equality
Assessment Paper
This paper by the Copenhagen Consensus Center examines the benefits and costs of the gender equality targets for the post-2015 development agenda.
Investing in the Power of Women: Progress Report on the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Initiative
Investing in the Power of Women: Progress Report on the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Initiative
A new report by Babson College on the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women program found that training and education for women entrepreneurs positively affects emerging economies by increasing revenues and creating jobs, expanding women’s contributions to their communities, and informing their leadership styles.
A Business to Call Her Own: Identifying, Analyzing and Overcoming Constraints to Womens’ Small Businesses in Latin America and the Caribbean
A Business to Call Her Own: Identifying, Analyzing and Overcoming Constraints to Womens’ Small Businesses in Latin America and the Caribbean
This study by the IDB’s Multilateral Investment Fund identifies key barriers to women’s businesses globally and evaluates the degree to which they constrain women’s business growth in Latin America. These barriers include a lack of access to financial products and services, risk aversion, social conventions, family responsibilities, education, and training and technology.
Women’s Entrepreneurial Venture Scope
Women’s Entrepreneurial Venture Scope
WEVentureScope, put together by the Economist Intelligence Unit and commissioned by the IDB’s Multilateral Investment Fund, assembles indicators assessing the areas of business operating risks, the entrepreneurial business environment, access to finance, access to education and training and availability of social services to identify the best places for a woman to start and grow a business in the Latin America and Caribbean regions.
Connectivity: How Mobile Phones, Computers and the Internet Can Catalyze Women’s Entrepreneurship
Connectivity: How Mobile Phones, Computers and the Internet Can Catalyze Women’s Entrepreneurship
This case study by the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women translates insights on how women in India are using mobile technology into recommendations for the private sector, government and nongovernmental groups to encourage women to start, strengthen and sustain businesses by using ICTs. These include making women a core part of business strategies, designing policies that incentivize public-private partnerships, and drawing on the expertise and experience of local organizations that are already working to provide poor women with income-generating opportunities.
Mobile Value Added Services: A Business Growth Opportunity for Women Entrepreneurs
Mobile Value Added
Services: A Business Growth Opportunity for Women
Entrepreneurs
This report by the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women finds that micro-entrepreneurs, representing 98% of entrepreneurial activity in the three markets the report examines (Egypt, Nigeria and Indonesia), offer the biggest opportunity for mobile value-added services adoption.
Faire Progresser L’Inclusion Financiere des Femmes en Afrique
Faire Progresser L’Inclusion Financiere des Femmes en Afrique
Sur le continent africain, où le niveau global d’inclusion financière est déjà faible, il est particulièrement difficile pour les femmes d’accéder aux services financiers par rapport aux hommes. Ce document de politique générale expose une série de recommandations pour les décideurs politiques, à savoir les entités gouvernementales, les banques centrales et les autorités de réglementation, destinées à traiter cette question.
Advancing African Women’s Financial Inclusion
Advancing African Women’s Financial Inclusion
On the African continent, characterized by a low level of financial inclusion overall, the lack of access to financial services for women is acute when compared to that of men. This policy brief by GIZ and Alliance member New Faces New Voices lays out a set of recommendations for policy makers, central banks and other regulatory authorities that are designed to tackle this issue.
Africa: Women’s Economic Empowerment Opens up a World of Opportunity
Africa: Women’s Economic Empowerment Opens up a World of Opportunity
This research note from Standard Chartered highlights the pivotal role that women can play in Africa’s future growth. Research has shown that when economically empowered, women are more likely to lower household poverty and to invest money in the future of human capital in society.
Strengthening Access to Finance for Women-Owned SMEs in Developing Countries
Strengthening Access to
Finance for Women-Owned SMEs in Developing
Countries
As access to finance is repeatedly identified as a major constraint to women entrepreneurs, this GPFI and IFC report sets out to analyze the issues involved in improving access to finance for women-owned businesses. It also aims to identify scalable financing models that can be replicated in G20 and interested non-G20 countries looking to increase the opportunities of women-owned businesses as those nations further develop their private sector.
Banking on Women in Business: Access Bank
Banking on Women
in Business: Access Bank
This IFC Case Study offers a brief description of the business landscape for women in Nigeria, as illustrated by the story of Muni Shonibare, a Nigerian woman entrepreneur with a furniture-making business, whose clients included Mobil and Hilton Hotels. Access Bank provided her with $800K in expansion capital.
2014 Impact Report: State of the SGB Sector
2014 Impact Report: State of the SGB Sector
This report by the Aspen Network of Development Entrpreneurs looks at the state of the SGB sector, in an effort to boost the sector by helping stakeholders develop integrated strategies for strengthening the entire system that supports entrepreneurs.
21st Century Barriers to Women’s Entrepreneurship
21st Century Barriers to Women’s Entrepreneurship
The report from the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, chaired by Sen. Maria Cantwell, looks at steps the federal government can take to foster women’s business growth.
A Path to Empowerment: The Role of Corporations in Supporting Women’s Economic Progress
A Path to Empowerment: The Role of Corporations in Supporting Women’s
Economic Progress
There is a growing recognition that the private sector, from multinational corporations to microenterprises, will be central in helping to achieve the agenda of women’s economic empowerment. This report is the summary of a series of roundtables on the subject convened by the Harvard Kennedy School Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative and U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation Corporate Citizenship Center. The report is intended to help frame further discussion and catalyze action.
Progress of the World’s Women 2015-2016
Progress of the World’s Women 2015-2016
Drawing on promising experiences from around the world, this United Nations report proposes a comprehensive agenda for key policy actors— including gender equality advocates, national governments and international agencies—to make human rights a lived reality for all women and girls.
The Global Findex Database 2014
The Global Findex
Database 2014
The Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) database, launched by the World Bank in 2011, provides comparable indicators showing how people around the world save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. The 2014 edition of the database reveals that 62 percent of adults worldwide have an account at a bank or another type of financial institution or with a mobile money provider.
Making the Business Case: Women’s Economic Empowerment In Market Systems Development
Making the Business Case: Women’s Economic Empowerment In Market Systems Development
This USAID report seeks to demonstrate using market research how business practices that are inclusive of women are good for business and social change.
The Full Participation Project – No Ceilings
The Full Participation Project – No Ceilings
This report looks at the gains made for gender equality since 1995 and all the work that still must be done to achieve full participation of women and girls.
Genero en El Sistema Financiero 2013
Genero en El Sistema
Financiero 2013
This report from the Chilean financial Superintendent — in Spanish — offers a wealth of insights into how women in the country use the banking system.
The Global Gender Gap Report 2014
The Global Gender Gap
Report 2014
This World Economic Forum Index benchmarks national gender gaps on economic, political, education- and health-based criteria, and provides country rankings that allow for effective comparisons across regions and income groups, and over time.
The World Survey on the Role of Women in Development 2014
The World Survey on
the Role of Women in
Development 2014
As the global community grapples with the challenges of sustainable development and the definition of the Sustainable Development Goals, the United Nations’ 2014 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development asserts the central role of gender equality.
State of the SGB Sector Impact Report 2013
State of the SGB Sector
Impact Report 2013
Rather than making the case for SGBs, this report focuses on the progress and challenges that we have seen over the past five years.
Giving Credit Where It Is Due
Giving Credit Where It Is Due
This Goldman Sachs report looks at the role of women-owned small- and medium- sized enterprises (SMEs) in raising labor force participation and boosting economic growth in emerging markets.
The Business of Empowering Women
The Business of
Empowering Women
The business of empowering women, a report by McKinsey & Company, presents a case for why and how the private sector should intensify its engagement in the economic empowerment of women in developing countries and emerging markets.
Global Gender Gap Report 2013
Global Gender Gap Report 2013
This World Economic Forum Index benchmarks national gender gaps on economic, political, education- and health-based criteria, and provides country rankings that allow for effective comparisons across regions and income groups, and over time.
The Global Gender Gap Report 2012
The Global Gender Gap
Report 2012
This World Economic Forum Index benchmarks national gender gaps on economic, political, education and health-based criteria, and provides country rankings that allow for effective comparisons across regions and income groups, and over time.
Growth and Opportunity: The Landscape of Organizations that Support Small and Growing Businesses in the Developing World
Growth and Opportunity: The Landscape of Organizations that Support Small and Growing Businesses in the Developing World
This study by Monitor Deloitte and the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs maps the landscape of the SGB sector, and in so doing, determines both the challenges facing SGB intermediaries and how organizations should support the field in addressing these challenges.
G20 Women Finance Report
G20 Women Finance Report
This progress report provides an overview of the state of affairs and principal barriers to enhancing financial inclusion for women, and proposes an outline for G20-led women’s financial inclusion agenda, supported by the GPFI, OECD (and its International Network on Financial Education) and World Bank.
Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Global Reports
Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Global Reports
In nearly every economy there are fewer female than male entrepreneurs, and they appear to show reluctance to scale their businesses or to enter new and less tested markets. The GEM reports raise many intriguing questions, including how women’s participation in entrepreneurship reflects different attitudes and perceptions about women and how these cultural constraints impact the potential of women as entrepreneurs.
Women’s Economic Opportunities in the Formal Private Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean
Women’s Economic
Opportunities in the Formal
Private Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean
This report from GTZ, the World Bank and the IDB looks at the progress LAC has made in supporting gender equality and suggests that a shift to placing more emphasis on promoting the growth of female-owned firms rather than on firm creation is needed to advance further.
Gender Toolkit for International Finance Watchers
Gender Toolkit for
International Finance Watchers
Gender Action and Oxfam prepared this gender toolkit for civil society organizations conducting research, monitoring and advocacy on the international financial institutions (IFIs) and commercial banks in order to support efforts to “engender” their work.
Women’s Economic Opportunity
Women’s Economic
Opportunity
This index from the Economist Intelligence Unit builds on work done by the UNDP and the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Inex to provide a robust look at the factors that influence women’s economic opportunity and how countries have addressed them.
A User’s Guide to Measuring Gender-Sensitive Basic Service Delivery
A User’s Guide to Measuring Gender-Sensitive Basic
Service Delivery
This Guide is produced as part of a UNIFEM, UNDP and Gender at Work initiative called Gender and Democratic Governance in Development. It aims to improve the governance of basic services provision to women.
ILOSTAT Database
ILOSTAT Database
The ILO’s central statistics database ILOSTAT is the primary source for cross-country statistics on the labor market. The database contains over 100 indicators covering more than 230 countries and economies, including information on female employment by country.
Gender Equality and Development
Gender Equality and
Development
The DAC Network on Gender Equality (GENDERNET) from OECD is the only international forum where experts from development cooperation agencies meet to define common approaches in support of gender equality and women’s rights.
Enterprise Surveys – Gender
Enterprise Surveys – Gender
Benchmarking female participation in firm ownership, management and the workforce is important to achieving gender equality promotion and empowerment of women. With the Enterprise Surveys Gender data, the World Bank provides information about women’s entrepreneurship and economic participation in the labor force.
Gender Equality Data and Statistics
Gender Equality Data and Statistics
Gender gaps exist in earnings, types of jobs, sectors of work, farmer productivity, and entrepreneurs’ firm sizes and profits, among other dimensions. This database helps demonstrate the opportunity of the Women’s Market.
World Development Indicators
World Development
Indicators
The primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources, presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates. The data includes information on the status of women in business and the economy.
