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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.

Women, Business and the Law: Removing Barriers to Economic Inclusion

Women, Business and the Law: Removing Barriers to Economic Inclusion

Women, Business and the Law: Removing Barriers to Economic Inclusion

This World Bank report measures and compares gender parity in 141 economies via legal differentiations on the basis of gender, covering six areas: accessing institutions, using property, getting a job, providing incentives to work, building credit and going to court.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.