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Mobile Technologies and Digitized Data to Promote Access to Finance for Women in Agriculture

The evidence that women both drive  agricultural production and rely on it for their livelihoods  means that greater financial and informational service  provision to women, especially through digital channels,  could increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their  labor. While the numerous barriers to women’s access to  Digital financial Services (DFS) are clear, clarifying the  best methodologies by which to overcome these is both  dependent on situational context and still subject to  research and testing. 

Small Business Credit Survey: Report on Women-Owned Firms

Majority women-owned firms, where 51 percent or more of the business is owned by women, are an important segment of U.S. businesses. Since 2007, women-owned firms in the United States, both the self-employed and firms with employees (“employer firms”), have been growing—in number and as a share of all U.S. firms. As of 2015, women-owned firms totaled over one million and accounted for one-fifth of U.S. firms. Among women-owned employer firms, jobs and annual receipts have grown since 2012.

Activist to Entrepreneur: The Role of Social Enterprise in Supporting Women's Empowerment in the US

This British Council report examines the role that social enterprise is playing in addressing gender inequality and women’s empowerment in the US, where women earn 65 cents for every dollar earned by a man and are chronically under-represented in positions of leadership. It is one of a series of reports on social enterprise and women’s empowerment which also focus on Brazil, India, Pakistan and the UK.

Private Sector Engagement with Women’s Economic Empowerment

Oxford University’s Linda Scott, Emeritus DP World Professor for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Said Business School has launched The Global Business Coalition for Women’s Economic Empowerment (GBC4WEE) initiative, with a document that brings together her perspective of the collective learning of nine companies engaged in women’s economic empowerment programmes around the world: The Coca-Cola Company, ExxonMobil Foundation, Goldman Sachs, Marks & Spencer, Mondeléz International, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, PwC, Qualcomm® Wireless Reach™, and Walmart.

Japan Pledges $50 Million to World Bank Initiative to Finance Female Entrepreneurs

Japan has pledged US$50 million (S$67.9 million) to a global initiative that promotes female entrepreneurship, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Friday, Nov 3 to an audience that included Ivanka Trump, senior advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump.

This will make the country the largest financial contributor in the Women's Entrepreneur Finance Initiative, a public-private loan programme by the World Bank that was championed by Ms Trump and launched at this year's Group of 20 (G-20) summit.

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