Entrepreneurship is widely argued to be critical for alleviating extreme poverty. However,
research on this topic is characterized by diverging perspectives regarding poverty …

Gender equality is a major problem that places women at a disadvantage thereby stymieing
economic growth and societal advancement. In the last two decades, extensive research …

Women are less financially literate than men. It is unclear whether this gap reflects a lack of
knowledge or, rather, a lack of confidence. Our survey experiment shows that women tend to …

The objective of this paper is to examine the determinants of financial inclusion in Africa. We
use the World Bank's Global Findex database on 37 African countries to perform probit …

This study proposes a multi-stakeholder framework to enhance fintech use in Africa, aiming
to improve financial inclusion and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. This article …

The role and relevance of gender in financial inclusion has been an evolving area of
research in recent times. Although there are several cross-country studies on this aspect …

The sustainable development of Nigeria is being challenged by a persistent large financial
inclusion gender gap (FIGG). The same gender gap in the country's smallholder agriculture …

Purpose Women entrepreneurship has grown significantly all over the world, and it is widely
established that entrepreneurship is important for economic growth and wealth. Despite …

This paper summarizes the first publicly available, user-side data set of indicators that
measure how adults in 148 countries save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. We …

This paper documents and analyzes gender differences in the use of financial services
using individual-level data from 98 developing countries. The data, drawn from the Global …