Author/Editor: Purva Khera, Sumiko Ogawa, Ratna Sahay, Mahima Vasishth.

Release Date:July, 2022

While digital financial services have made access to finance easier, faster, and less costly, helping to broaden digital financial inclusion, its impact on gender gaps varies across countries. more...

Author/Editor: Purva Khera, Stephanie Y Ng, Sumiko Ogawa, Ratna Sahay.

Release Date:June, 2021

Digital financial services have been a key driver of financial inclusion in recent years. While there is evidence that financial inclusion through traditional services has a positive impact on more...

Author/Editor: Ratna Sahay, Ulric Eriksson von Allmen, Amina Lahreche, Purva Khera, Sumiko Ogawa, Majid Bazarbash, Kimberly Beaton.

Release Date:July, 2020

Technology is changing the landscape of the financial sector, increasing access to financial services in profound ways. These changes have been in motion for several years, affecting nearly all more...

Author/Editor: Purva Khera.

Release Date:September, 2018

Gender gaps in womens’ economic opportunities—labor market and entrepreneurship—have remained high in India. Lack of adequate collateral limits women entrepreneurs’ ability to access formal more...

Author/Editor: Rahul Anand, Purva Khera.

Release Date:March, 2016

This paper investigates the implications of lowering formal regulations in labor and product
 markets on informality and macroeconomic outcomes in India. We estimate a DSGE model
 more...

Author/Editor: Purva Khera.

Release Date:February, 2016

This paper examines the macroeconomic interaction between informality and gender
 inequality in the labor market. A dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model is built to
 study more...