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ADB Senior Digital Technology Specialist Lisette Cipriano shares how financial inclusion is critical for women’s empowerment. Financial products and services help women provide for their families and support women entrepreneurs to build their businesses.
Transcript
Women not being able to access products and services means that they won't be able to save for their children's educations; means that they are excluded from the financial services.
Women entrepreneurs who can't get access to finance aren't able to build their businesses and grow it. Here at the ADB, we are doing a lot of gender (women's) empowerment projects such as the Women's Finance Exchange where we work with our financial institution clients to help give access to finance to women entrepreneurs so that they can build their businesses.
