Mastercard Index of Women Entrepreneurs

Register to find out: - How governments can help unlock the benefits of tourism across their economies, including addressing economic inequality by supporting locally-owned businesses. - The challenges to digital adoption for SMEs – and how they can be overcome. - International best practice in supporting tourism SMEs to be able to weather the cyclical nature of the sector.

This webinar looked at the best practice in delivering the reasonable adjustments for colleagues at every level of seniority working both at home and in the office – to enhance productivity and employee engagement while reducing sickness absence and the costs associated with managing grievances. This will ensure that hybrid workforces remain disability confident workforces.

With the vast majority of central banks stepping up their explorations or experiments with digital money, we explore that central bank digital currencies could provide to governments. These could include boosting financial inclusion and programmability (programmable money). What are the biggest potential benefits to government of retail CBDCs? How important are technology choices to realising these benefits?

Women in developing economies are typically less likely than men to have a bank account. As an example, Pakistan’s national payments strategy has highlighted that, as of 2019, only 21.3 per cent of adults in the country have a transaction account and, of these, only seven per cent are held by women. The World Bank and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) network and New York City-headquartered NGO Women’s World Banking, published a report in 2020 – ‘Digital Cash Transfers in the Time of Covid-19: Opportunities and Considerations for Women’s Inclusion and Empowerment’ – setting out considerations for policymakers. How can fintech solutions help?