Women can’t grow the economy if we lock them out
There’s no disputing it – worldwide, women’s access to finance is disproportionately low. Despite substantial overall progress—in 2017, the World Bank reported, 1.2 billion more people had bank accounts than in 2011—there is still a large gap between women’s and men’s access. In sub-Saharan Africa, only 37% of women have a bank account, compared with […]