People with access to savings accounts or simple informal savings technologies are more likely to increase consumption, productivity and income, and investment in preventive health, and to have reduced vulnerability to illness and other unexpected events (Dupas and Robinson, 2013, Ashraf et al, 2010). Increasing women’s control of resources, even small and temporary increases, in turn can increase bargaining pow'er in households (Duflo, 2012). Access to financial services through bank accounts (OECD 2012, World Bank, 2012) also helps protect assets. There is also a strong link between women’s financial inclusion and their performance as entrepreneurs in developing countries (OECD, 2012). Only about 25% of females above the age of 15 have an account in a formal financial institution compared to 42% of Indian men and 60% in the BRIICs on average (World Bank, 2013, Demirguc-Kunt etal.