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Social Norms and Gender Disparities with a Focus on Female Labor Force Participation in South Asia (英语)

Despite decades of economic growth, gender disparities in South Asia remain remarkably high. Although not the only one, social norms are a crucial driver of various gender outcomes, including differential...

Changing gender norms around women’s work: Evidence from an online intervention in Indonesia (英语)

This policy note summarizes the findings of an online survey that sought to measure the extent of support for women with children working outside the home for pay. In a second survey the study investigated...

Gendered Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Somalia: Results from a High-Frequency Phone Survey of Households (英语)

The COVID-19 outbreak has impacted people around the world in an unprecedented manner, especially vulnerable populations such as displaced people. To monitor the heterogeneous impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic...

تقـــريــــــر حـــالــــــة المــــــرأة فـــي المشــــــرق رئيســــــي - 2 : مـــــن يقـــــدم الرعايـــــة؟ - أعمـــــال الرعايـــــة ونتـــــائج ســــــــوق العمـــــل للمـــــرأة في العــــــــــــراق والأردن ولبنــــــــــــان (阿拉伯语)

Increasing female labor force participation is a pressing concern in Mashreq countries. The negative relation between women’s family responsibilities and female labor force participation is well established...

Legal Bans, Female Genital Cutting, and Education : Evidence from Senegal (英语)

A law that banned the practice of female genital cutting (FGC) in Senegal in 1999 reduced its prevalence and increased educational investments in girls. These results are not driven by mechanisms like...

Anti-FGM Activities and Cooperation with Relevant Actors in the Field of FGM in Mali - Consultancy Report (英语)

Following an initial mapping of the main initiatives targeting FGM in Mali, multi-level analyses and feasibility assessments, four lines of work were selected to best integrate activities addressing FGM...

Assessments and Operational Discussions for Cooperation with Relevant Actors in the Field of FGM in Mali - Consultancy Report (英语)

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is an extreme form of violence against women and girls (VAWG), of sexual assault, a human rights violation, and a development impediment that affects more than 200 million...

A Review of Liberia Legislation Through a Gender Lens (英语)

This report finds that the Liberian government continues to prioritize important female-specific issues – such as the elimination of violence against women and girls – within its development agenda. Accompanying...

Disclosable Version of the ISR - Solid Waste Emergency and Efficiency Project - P173021 - Sequence No : 02 (英语)

Female-Owned Firms during the COVID-19 Crisis (英语)

This brief use firm-level data collected between May 2020 and May 2021 in 41 countries, to provide descriptive evidence on the differential effect of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis on female-...

Disclosable Version of the ISR - Rwanda - Energy Access and Quality Improvement Project - P172594 - Sequence No : 02 (英语)

Does Better Access to Finance Help Firms Deal with the COVID-19 Pandemic ? Evidence from Firm-Level Survey Data (英语)

The advent of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has led to a severe liquidity crunch among private firms. Yet, formal analysis of the impact of a liquidity crunch or access to finance on the performance...

Biscate Platform Evaluation : Matching Supply and Demand in the Informal Services Market in Mozambique (英语)

This report presents the evaluation of Biscate, a digital labor market matching platform for informal services workers in Mozambique. The platform aims to facilitate labor market intermediation of workers...

Study of the Biscate Jobs Platform in Mozambique World Bank - Let’s Work Program Mozambique (英语)

This report presents the results of the analysis of data collected on workers and clients using Biscate, a digital labor market matching platform for informal services workers in Mozambique. The platform...

Monitoring the Impact of COVID-19 on Firms in Zambia : Results from Two Rounds of World Bank Enterprise Survey Follow-ups on COVID-19 (英语)

The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and its negative economic effects create a need for timely data and evidence to help monitor and mitigate the social and economic impacts of the crisis...

Gender Development Framework West Bengal Electricity Distribution Grid Modernization Project (P170590) (英语)

Disclosable Version of the ISR - Solid Waste Emergency and Efficiency Project - P173021 - Sequence No : 01 (英语)

Exports and Women Workers in Formal Firms (英语)

Theory suggests several ways in which exporting may benefit women’s employment. However, the empirical evidence is mixed and limited, especially for developing countries. This paper uses firm-level survey...

Identificación de Ocupaciones Críticas para la Población Femenina de Bogotá (西班牙语)

En esta presentación se analiza identificación de ocupaciones críticas para la población femenina de Bogotá.

Disclosable Version of the ISR - Rwanda - Energy Access and Quality Improvement Project - P172594 - Sequence No : 01 (英语)