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Digitally enabled platforms are estimated to create 70% of new value added over the next decade, and past estimates of the global digital economy range from an average of 4.5% to 15.5%. And yet, gaps in access risk further excluding women from these economic opportunities.<\/p>\n

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As digitalization continues to transform business operations and revolutionize the way people access products and services, are women able to seize opportunities in burgeoning sectors in the digital economy?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

To address this question, IFC leveraged data<\/a> from Digital2Equal members Jumia and Lazada, among the largest e-commerce platforms in Africa and Southeast Asia respectively, to publish the first large-scale research on women and e-commerce. Women and E-commerce in Africa and Women and E-commerce in Southeast Asia<\/em><\/a> show to what extent women are participating on and succeeding in online commerce and how the COVID-19 pandemic changed the e-commerce landscape.<\/p>\n

If gender gaps were closed\u2014an opportunity to put nearly $300 billion in the hands of women entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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