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

But women entrepreneurs continue to face persistent gender-based barriers that impede their success – such as unequal access to financial accounts, constrained credit, and normative roles that keep women in the role of primary caregivers. Improved financial inclusion can help reduce some of these barriers.

This Brief presents data collected by the World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law (WBL) project on how National Financial Inclusion Strategies can spur policy and regulatory reforms in support of women’s entrepreneurship.

• Resource type Brief
• OrganisationCGAP, World Bank Group
• Year of Publication2023
• RegionGlobal
• LanguageEnglish
• Keywords Entrepreneurship, Gender and Women's Empowerment, Financial Inclusion