Table of Contents

Preface vii
Introduction xi
Part I: Women's Financial Inclusion: Clearing the Roadblocks to Empowerment 1
1 The Road to Financial Inclusion 5
2 What's Standing in the Way of Women's Financial Inclusion? 33
3 From Invisibility to Agency 55
Part II: Making the Business Case 73
4 Making the Business Case for Building Wealth 77
5 Making the Business Case for Access to Capital 101
6 Making the Business Case for Managing Risk 129
7 A Call to Action 141
Acknowledgments 161
Notes 163
Index 201

About the Author

Mary Ellen Iskenderian is President and CEO of Women's World Banking, a global nonprofit devoted to giving more low-income women access to financial tools and resources.

Reviews

"A comprehensive look at how to bring more women into the global financial system... The book's holistic approach to financial inclusion-addressing insurance along with the ability to save and borrow and drawing connections between financial empowerment and gender-based violence-adds a valuable layer to the discussion and expands on the existing literature... An engaging and wide-ranging look at new developments in banking access."
-Kirkus Reviews