LAHORE -- Only 13% of women in Pakistan own bank accounts, the fourth-lowest proportion in the world.
Women in the southern Pakistani village of Molvi Suleman Jat gather to discuss their informal community savings program, which they use instead of formal bank accounts, in February. (Photo by Betsy Joles)
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Pakistan's financial gender gap aggravates chronic poverty
With little access to bank accounts, women rely on one another to save
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