Banking with the poor and women entrepreneurship development in emerging economies

摘要

The democracy itself depends on equal participation of both sexes.udEntrepreneurship activities are available for both sexes officially, but in realityudnumerous obstacles exist for women entrepreneurs. Maybe the most importantudobstacle is their limited access to financial services. The lack of financialudservices could be overcome using the banking with the poor strategy. As theudname implies, this concept abandons the traditional banking views, and has theudobjective to offer financial services to the financially fragile population. Theudobjective of this paper is to present the numerous strategies and products ofudbanking with the poor and the way in which these products could impact theudwomen entrepreneurship level. Moreover, banking for poor was initiallyuddeveloped for poor economies, thus some changes should be made to theudconcept as a result of the differences in the functioning of poor and emergingudeconomies.