Sri Lanka, Oct. 14 -- A pioneering digital financial inclusion programme is transforming lives across rural Sri Lanka, offering a blueprint for tackling unemployment in developing economies worldwide

Sri Lanka, in a country where one in five young people struggles to find work, a digital finance initiative is gradually rewriting the economic futures of thousands of youth entrepreneurs, especially women.

As the world marks International Day of Rural Women on October 15, their stories highlight how access to technology and credit is empowering a new generation of rural women to lead change from the ground up. The Digital Financial Inclusion for Youth Economic Empowerment project has reached over 34,000 beneficiaries since September 2022,...