TY - BOOK AU - Ojo, Tinuade Adekunbi TI - Women and finance in Africa: inclusion and transformation T2 - Sustainable Development Goals Series SN - 9783031533365 U1 - 332 PY - 2024/// CY - Switzerland PB - Springer KW - Microfinance KW - Gender budgeting KW - Finance in Africa KW - Female entrepreneurship KW - Digital financial inclusion KW - Rural/urban dichotomy N2 - This volume presents a collection of cases that examine the status of financial inclusion for women across a variety of states in the African continent. The book uses a qualitative research method and presents both primary to secondary data to narrate the impact of gender-responsive budgeting on women's empowerment and gender equality in these communities. The chapters present the analysis of the effectiveness of African state’ approaches and share lessons that different African economies, whether currently booming or struggling, can enhance or implement toward the financial inclusion and gender budgeting response at all structural levels. The main objectives of this volume are to understand different processes for financial inclusion to gender issues at a national level and to help encourage reflection on what lessons could be learned between states and what factors cause divergence in multilateral settings so that they can be understood and (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-53337-2) ER -