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Why FIs, policy makers, and local community leaders need to work together for women’s financial inclusion to become reality

  • This Financial Inclusion Week, we are looking at the three-quarters of a billion women in the world who are excluded from the financial system.
  • For inclusion to become reality, governments, FIs and local community leaders have to work together to ensure women's involvement in everything from product design to policy construction.
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