Theme: Women's Financial Inclusion

For the first time, the majority of Indian women have been financially included. Fresh data show that the proportion of Indian women with individual accounts in formal financial institutions (primarily banks) reached 61% in 2015, a sharp increase from 48% in 2014, lagging men by only eight percentage points.

Advancing women’s financial inclusion is a key policy objective for both advanced and emerging economies. Providing access to formal finance is seen as an important lever in helping poor women seize economic opportunities and build a resilient future for themselves and their families.

Even when women are not the primary borrowers of formal finance, studies note that they remain responsible for ensuring timely repayments.

Digital formal finance can potentially reduce the physical and social distance b ..

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https://bfsi.economictimes.indiatimes.com/blog/making-digital-finance-work-for-women/90052605

We undertook a study of how digitisation through mobile phones plays out among women and In this brief, we present findings relevant to financial service providers

This paper provides a snapshot of the way digitisation through mobile phones plays out among women in India, based on a review of literature, semi-structured interviews

In this blog post, we share our insights on the level of monitoring and control experienced by women accessing mobile phones.

While phone access and ownership has been rising rapidly in India in recent years, women lag behind on access, usage and ownership of mobile phones across the world but especially in South Asia, including India.

This paper provides an analytical review of extant literature on how low-income women in India and in other countries in the Global South access and use mobile phones

This post provides a brief overview of the gender gap in technology in India.