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Highly confident, women entrepreneurs still face systemic barriers

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The Center for Financial Inclusion convenes Financial Inclusion Week each year and invites partner organizations to showcase work, share ideas on what's ahead, and engage with the community. In Latin America, 40% of all workers are independent workers and micro- to mid-sized entrepreneurs account for 99.5% of all firms, the pandemic and ongoing global economic challenges are devastating. This session features the Center for Inclusive Growth's Luz Gomez, Vice President of Social Impact for Latin America & the Caribbean, and outlines key challenges facing gig workers in Latin America, and identifies behavioral strategies and interventions best suited to resolve them. 

Accion is a global nonprofit committed to creating a financially inclusive world, with a pioneering legacy in microfinance and fintech impact investing. We catalyze financial service providers to deliver high-quality, affordable solutions at scale for the three billion people who are left out of – or poorly served by – the financial sector.For more than 50 years, Accion has helped tens of millions of people through its work with more than 90 partners in 40 countries.&nbsp;Since their founding in 1961, Accion has worked tirelessly to empower people who are underserved, revolutionizing financial services for people who are left out.

Accion

Accion Accion is a global nonprofit committed to creating a financially inclusive world, with a pioneering legacy in microfinance and fintech impact investing.

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Latin American & Caribbean

A Stronger Lifeline: Interventions to Improve Resilience of Gig Workers and Entrepreneurs in Latin America