Blended finance and women entrepreneurs: Evidence from Türkiye

This Brief explains how blended finance programmes can help women entrepreneurs to access (more) credit and therefore grow their businesses.

Blended finance programmes combine public and private funding to enhance access to credit for specific groups, such as businesses run by women. Despite the disbursement of billions of dollars in blended finance, empirical evidence on the effectiveness of these programmes remains scarce. This Impact Brief addresses this knowledge gap by harnessing credit registry records and tax return data to evaluate the impact of a typical blended finance programme in Türkiye: the EBRD’s Women in Business programme.