Small businesses and AI: Accelerating innovation and inclusion

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Highly confident, women entrepreneurs still face systemic barriers

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How data and AI can drive change: 4 ways forward

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Unlocking the power of small businesses to drive climate-smart inclusive growth

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Two years ago the research team at NYU hosted an expert webinar on "the gathering storm" of the pandemic and the crisis it presented for low-income households and the MFI industry. Two years later, this webinar looked back on the pandemic, where predictions and concerns were wrong and right, how the industry has weathered the storm, and what challenges remain.

Financial Access Initiative at NYU

Financial Access Initiative FAI is a research center working at the intersection of financial inclusion, development, and poverty.

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Global

Microfinance Meets Pandemic: Two Years Later, Two Years From Now

Financial inclusion

North America

Asia Pacific

Middle East & Africa

Europe

Latin American & Caribbean

AI for social impact

Climate change

Data for good

Digital transformation

Economic development

Financial health

Gender equity

Global development

Public-private partnerships

Small business