Pay-as-you-grow: Boosting Ethiopia’s women entrepreneurs with revenue-based financing TONI WEISTEWODROS TASSEW KEBEDE JULY 11, 2024 This page in: English

https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/allaboutfinance/pay-as-you-grow--boosting-ethiopia-s-women-entrepreneurs-with-re From bottle warmers to lunchboxes, Emebet Abit sells what children need to thrive. Recently, her small store in Addis Ababa has been flourishing, too. Emebet credits this success to a $1,700 loan she received from the Cooperative Bank of Oromia (CBO) through a pilot program with the World Bank’s Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL). The money has allowed her to purchase additional inventory and expand her business.