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In Ethiopia, the gender gap in financial inclusion is high, and the effect of socioeconomic variables on the gap is not … well investigated. The main objective of this study is to investigate determinants of the financial inclusion gender gap in … the effect of socioeconomic characteristics of individuals on the financial inclusion gender gap. The finding shows a …
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Fintech promises to spur financial inclusion and close the gender gap in access to financial services. Using novel … survey data for 28 countries, this paper finds a large and ubiquitous ‘fintech gender gap’: while 29% of men use fintech … products, only 21% of women do. Country characteristics and individual-level controls explain about a third of the gap. Gender …
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afflicted by pervasive gender inequalities, only recently noticed in research. To explore these gender inequalities at the core … intersection of financial, technological, and entrepreneurial gender inequalities. Our sample shows that women account for only 7 …
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We investigate the gender wage gap in three neglected MENA countries: Egypt (1980-2018), Jordan (2010-2016), and Turkey …
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While microfinance institutions (MFIs) are increasingly important as employers in the developing world, there is little … micro-level evidence on gender differences among MFI employees and MFIs' relation to economic development. We use a unique … panel dataset of employees from Latin America's largest MFI to show that gender gaps favouring men for promotion exist …
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Most of the customers of microfinance institutions are female. But do men and women benefit from the same credit … comprising 34,000 loan applications from a Brazilian microfinance institution. The model determines the optimal loan size fixed … by a gender-biased lender, depending on the borrower's creditworthiness and the intensity of the lender's bias. The …
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