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digital financial inclusion, its impact on gender gaps varies across countries. Moreover, women leaders in the fintech … industry, although growing, remain scarce. This paper explores the interaction between 'women' and 'fintech' by examining: (i …) the role of women leaders on firm-level performance in the fintech industry; and (ii) the determinants of gender gaps in …
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Fintech, which delivers financial services digitally, promises to promote financial inclusion and close the gender gap. Using a novel fintech dataset for 114 economies worldwide, this paper shows that fintech adoption significantly improves female employment and reduces gender inequality, the...
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Adoption of technology in the financial services industry (i.e. fintech) has been accelerating in recent years. To systematically and comprehensively assess the extent and progress over time in financial inclusion enabled by technology, we develop a novel digital financial inclusion index. This...
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Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. LITERATURE -- III. THE CANADIAN TAX AND BENEFIT SYSTEM IN THE 1990S -- IV. ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS -- V. RESULTS -- VI. CONCLUSION AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS -- REFERENCES.
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families, higher female education, and lower marriage rates are associated with much of the rise in women's aggregate … across countries. Raising female participation could provide an important boost to growth, but women face two hurdles in … participating in the workforce in Japan. First, few working women start out in career-track positions, and second, many women drop …
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This paper examines the impact of women's legal rights on labor force participation decisions made by women and men … household dynamics and women's agency within the family, such as divorce and property rights laws, and laws regarding the … ability of women to travel outside the home, are especially important in influencing their decision to work. The paper also …
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data from 1990 to 2019. Our results show that men's employment falls more than women's after contractionary monetary policy … response of the employment gap in the sector (services) that employs the largest share of men and women. In terms of labor … participation dropping more than women's. The effects are larger in countries with more flexible labor market regulations, higher …
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programs, and (3) unemployment benefits, all of which would help encourage women to enter the labor force, while (4) an …
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This paper discusses connections between female economic empowerment and government spending. It is an abbreviated overview for non-gender-experts on how fiscal expenditure may support female economic empowerment as an interim step toward advancing gender equality. From this perspective, it...
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The Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA) for low-income countries (LICs) is a standardized analytical tool to monitor debt sustainability. This paper uses DSAs from three periods around the time of the global economic crisis to analyze the projected trajectories of debt ratios for a sample of...
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