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The study has investigated the comparative importance of financial access in promoting gender inclusion in African … countries. Gender inclusion is proxied by the female labour participation rate while financial channels include: financial … stable countries enjoy better levels of "financial access"-induced gender inclusion compared to respectively, low income …
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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 …
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Although Tanzania has made notable progress in enhancing access to financial services, the gender gap in financial … inclusion persists. This paper examines gender disparities in financial inclusion in Tanzania using descriptive and regression … analyses. While the advent of mobile phone money services has led to increased access to formal financial services, women still …
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reflect and perpetuate gender norms that limit women's economic participation, and removal of these impediments through legal … impede women's economic empowerment, as well as ways in which the law can be used as a tool to create behavioral changes and … been implemented in differing contexts to help achieve women's economic empowerment. Given the relevance to the Fund …
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The study examines how financial stability modulates the effect of inclusive intermediary education on female employment in the industry for the period 2008-2018 in Sub-Saharan Africa. The empirical evidence is based on Tobit, Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and Quantile regressions. There are...
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effect was 8.40% for women as against 3.97% for men, indicating that the gender of participating poor undoubtedly affects the …We examine the question: “In the context of gender dimension what is the evidence of the impact of the financial … inclusion programs on poor households represented by women relative to that represented by men?” By constructing a good …
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Financial inclusion (FI) for vulnerable populations, such as women, is critical for achieving gender equality, women … force participation rate, and political empowerment of women significantly impact the digital financial inclusion of women …. The paper makes relevant policy suggestions for improving women’s digital financial access and thereby enhancing gender …
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