Publicity Inquiries
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Consultive Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) in collaboration with The World Bank Group book launch
Monday, April 25th, 2022
Private Event in Washington DC
SOAS University of London Reimaginig Finance Network Seminar Series
Monday, May 9th, 2022
Private Event in London
Yale School of Management Exchange Webinar
Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
Private Virtual Event
GLIS Book Launch
Monday, June 27th, 2022
Private Event in Zurich
Oliver Wyman
Wednesday, June 29th, 2022
Private Event in NYC
Women's Forum of New York
Wednesday, June 29th, 2022
Private Virtual Event
There's Nothing Micro About a Billion Women:
Making Finance Work for Women
by MARY ELLEN ISKENDERIAN
Nearly one billion women have been completely excluded from the formal financial system.
Without even a bank account in their own names, they lack the basic services that most of us take for granted—secure ways to save money, pay bills, and get credit. Exclusion from the formal financial system means they are economic outsiders, unable to benefit from, or contribute to, economic growth. Microfinance has been hailed as an economic lifeline for women in developing countries—but, as Mary Ellen Iskenderian shows in this book, it takes more than microloans to empower women and promote sustainable, inclusive economic growth.