Given COVID-19’s financial influence, this examine is well timed. The labour market pressure is shifting as employers cut back their workforce and childcare wants at residence enhance. Girls’s livelihoods have modified. It’s extra crucial now than ever to harness the facility of digital platforms for girls’s financial empowerment.
This report summarizes probably the most thorough analysis to-date on the ultra-micro entrepreneurs phase in Indonesia. This phase consists of those that have entry to an ultra-micro mortgage from the Authorities of Indonesia distributed by way of Pusat Investasi Pemerintah and its channelling companions, and people with comparable enterprise traits who’ve by no means accessed the mortgage.
This report additionally gives a comparative evaluation of ultra-micro entrepreneurs’ monetary behaviors and day-to-day enterprise administration by gender, with a view to offering a greater understanding of the alternatives and challenges related to using ultra-microloans.