State of Financial Inclusion of Women in Pakistan
Economic policymakers in developing countries across the world are focusing on expanding financial inclusion. This agenda assumes greater significance for countries like Pakistan, where financial inclusion levels are quite low. It has led to severa...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/395011550264178924/State-of-Financial-Inclusion-of-Women-in-Pakistan http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31323 |
| Summary: | Economic policymakers in developing
countries across the world are focusing on expanding
financial inclusion. This agenda assumes greater
significance for countries like Pakistan, where financial
inclusion levels are quite low. It has led to several policy
interventions in Pakistan over the past decade and a half,
including the promotion of microfinance, the promotion of
small and medium enterprise (SME) finance, and the enabling
of digital finance. These interventions have begun to show
results. This background paper has been developed to inform
the discussions on advancing women's financial
inclusion in Pakistan. It seeks to map the current state of
financial access for women and to provide insights into
their financial behavior gleaned from the recently completed
Access to Finance Surveys of 2015. |
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