Emerging Trends in National Financial Inclusion Strategies that Support Women’s Entrepreneurship

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Emerging Trends in National Financial Inclusion Strategies that Support Women’s Entrepreneurship

dc.contributor.author	Bin-Humam, Yasmin
dc.contributor.author	Braunmiller, Julia Constanze
dc.contributor.author	Elsaman, Mahmoud
dc.date.accessioned	2023-04-10T19:58:27Z
dc.date.available	2023-04-10T19:58:27Z
dc.date.issued	2023-03-10
dc.description.abstract	Starting a business is a way for women to generate income and become more resilient when dealing with shocks. However, large gender gaps in formal entrepreneurship impede women’s livelihoods and global development. The persistence of gender-based barriers-notably, unequal access to financial accounts, constrained credit, and normative roles that keep women in the role of primary caregivers underscores the need for broader support and regulatory reform, including reform of the financial sector. This brief presents data collected by the World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law (WBL) project on selected contours of National Financial Inclusion Strategies that can support women’s entrepreneurship. In all, fifty-two economies worldwide had valid financial inclusion strategies in force as of June 30, 2022. An increasing number are now highlighting the need to promote women’s financial inclusion. However, as this initial foray shows, more could be done in National Financial Inclusion Strategies to promote credit to women entrepreneurs and enhance the national-level collection and reporting of financial data disaggregated by sex. The analysis also shows that the field for developing indicators at both the policy and regulatory level remains ripe for exploration by the WBL project and others.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099400003082361874/IDU05eec2c4f027b90446b09954005faa70906f9
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/39659
dc.identifier.uri	https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/39659
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Global Indicators Briefs; No. 16
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subject	CGAP
dc.subject	WOMEN, BUSINESS AND THE LAW
dc.subject	ACCESS TO FINANCE
dc.subject	WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS
dc.subject	GENDER GAP
dc.subject	GENDER ROLES
dc.subject	FINANCIAL INCLUSION
dc.title	Emerging Trends in National Financial Inclusion Strategies that Support Women’s Entrepreneurship	en
dc.type	Brief
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crossref.title	Emerging Trends in National Financial Inclusion Strategies that Support Women’s Entrepreneurship
okr.date.disclosure	2023-03-08
okr.date.lastmodified	2023-03-08T00:00:00Z	en
okr.doctype	Brief
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
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okr.topic	Social Development::Social Inclusion & Institutions
okr.topic	Finance and Financial Sector Development::Access to Finance
okr.topic	Gender::Gender Monitoring and Evaluation
okr.topic	Gender::Gender and Economic Policy
okr.unit	Women
okr.unit	Business & the Law-WB (DECWL)