relevant to the APEC member countries because the region includes fast-growing fintech markets such as China, India, and Russia …

potential to address the gender gap in financial inclusion. In recent years, India has made significant progress toward … women remained registered inactive users. The World Banksupported rural livelihood programs in India have been instrumental … creating an ecosystem for the deployment of female members as BC agents across rural India. The paper uses a gender and …

financial inclusion (DFI), economic growth (EG), and gender equality (GE) across different levels of financial development … mitigating gender inequality. Conversely, in countries with less developed financial infrastructures, digital financial inclusion … stimulates economic growth but exacerbates gender disparities. Moreover, the variance decomposition analysis indicates that the …

financial inclusion. These findings are then used to help inform policy recommendations in areas related to the digitization of …