Growth in women’s businesses: the role of finance by Nancy Lee, General Manager of the MIF

The time is ripe for a wider discussion on gender and finance: evidence of the gains from economic empowerment of women is mounting rapidly - households, firms, farms, communities, and whole economies perform significantly better when women have opportunities to raise their productivity. It is practically tautological that growth will accelerate when half the population is more productive. The fundamental question at this point is: what factors are holding women back? It is surprising that we have so few empirically well-grounded answers.

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Growth in women’s businesses: the role of finance by Nancy Lee, General Manager of the MIF