Financial and Monetary Systems

The evidence is in: mobile money can help close the gender gap

A customer conducts a mobile money transfer, known as M-Pesa, inside the Safaricom mobile phone care centre in the central business district of Kenya's capital Nairobi

A new study shows that digital financial services like mobile money can help close the gender gap Image: REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

Rodger Voorhies
President, Global Growth & Opportunity, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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