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Author: Marta Morazzoni

  • When good businesses cannot borrow: the wider cost of the gender credit gap

    Banking & finance, Uncategorised

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    10th September 2026

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    Marta Morazzoni

    Women who run new businesses are more likely to have loan applications rejected than comparable men. This does more than hold back individual companies: when productive firms can’t obtain enough finance to invest and grow, capital ends up in the wrong places and the whole economy produces less.

    When good businesses cannot borrow: the wider cost of the gender credit gap

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