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  "title": "What is Driving Women’s Financial Inclusion Across Countries?",
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  "summary": "Using a broad set of macroeconomic country characteristics to supplement a new and comprehensive micro-level dataset for 140 countries, we identify structural factors, policies, and individual characteristics that are associated with financial inclusion—in general, and for women in particular.",
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      "content": "- Using a broad set of macroeconomic country characteristics to supplement a new and comprehensive micro-level dataset for 140 countries, the study identifies structural factors, policies, and individual characteristics associated with financial inclusion—in general, and for women in particular.\n- Data scope: micro-level dataset covering 140 countries."
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      "content": "- Structural country characteristics associated with financial inclusion:\n  - Resource-richness.\n  - Level of development.\n- Policy and institutional factors associated with financial inclusion:\n  - Stronger institutions.\n  - Financial development.\n- Gender gap in financial inclusion:\n  - A robust negative relationship between being female and financial inclusion is found, consistent with previous studies.\n- Possible explanatory factors for the gender gap:\n  - Legal discrimination.\n  - Lack of protection from harassment, including at the work place.\n  - More diffuse gender norms."
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      "content": "- Combines macroeconomic country characteristics with a new comprehensive micro-level dataset for 140 countries to analyze associations between structural factors, policies, individual characteristics, and financial inclusion."
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      "content": "- Authors: Corinne C Delechat, Monique Newiak, Rui Xu, Fan Yang, Goksu Aslan\n- Date: March 5, 2018\n- Series: Working Paper No. 2018/038\n- Pages: 31\n- Volume: 2018\n- Issue: 038\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484344460.001\n- ISBN: 9781484344460\n- ISSN: 1018-5941\n\nIMF Working Paper No. 2018/038\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- What is Driving Women’s Financial Inclusion Across Countries?, WP/18/38, March 2018\n  - What is Driving Women’s Financial Inclusion Across Countries?, WP/18/38, March 2018 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - What is Driving Women’s Financial Inclusion Across Countries?, WP/18/38, March 2018 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2018/03/05/what-is-driving-womens-financial-inclusion-across-countries-45670"
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    "Authors: Corinne C Delechat, Monique Newiak, Rui Xu, Fan Yang, Goksu Aslan",
    "Published: March 5, 2018",
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    "Using a broad set of macroeconomic country characteristics to supplement a new and comprehensive micro-level dataset for 140 countries, the study identifies structural factors, policies, and individual characteristics associated with financial inclusion—in general, and for women in particular.",
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    "Authors: Corinne C Delechat, Monique Newiak, Rui Xu, Fan Yang, Goksu Aslan",
    "Date: March 5, 2018",
    "Series: Working Paper No. 2018/038",
    "Pages: 31",
    "Volume: 2018",
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    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484344460.001",
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