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Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response in World Bank Operations:...
Abstract Gender-based violence (GBV) represents a critical barrier to development globally. As the most extreme manifestation of gender inequality and the most prevalent form of... -
World Bank Group Gender Strategy 2024 - 2030 : Accelerate Gender Equality to...
The World Bank Group Gender Strategy 2024-30 puts forward the bold ambition to accelerate gender equality to end poverty on a livable planet. Building on lessons from past WBG... -
A Retrospective of IFC’s Implementation of the World Bank Group Gender...
This document reflects the significant expansion of IFC’s gender work, ranging from innovative research, new product development, broadened private sector advisory solutions,... -
Gender Equality in Development: A Ten-Year Retrospective
Abstract This retrospective report explores global progress and lessons learned over the past 10 years in promoting gender equality. This report takes stock of global progress... -
Women, Business and the Law 2023
Women, Business and the Law 2023 is the ninth in a series of annual studies measuring the laws and regulations that affect women’s economic opportunity in 190 economies. It... -
World Bank Group Gender Strategy (FY16-23) : Gender Equality, Poverty...
By many measures, 2015 marks a watershed year in the international communitys efforts to advance gender equality. In September, with the adoption of the Sustainable Development... -
Women, Business and the Law 2010 : Measuring Legal Gender Parity for...
This report presents indicators based on laws and regulations affecting women's prospects as entrepreneurs and employees. Several of these indicators draw on the Gender Law... -
Women, Business, and the Law 2014 : Removing Restrictions to Enhance Gender Equality
In the past 50 years women's legal status has improved all over the world. But many laws still make it difficult for women to fully participate in economic life whether by... -
Women, Business and the Law 2016 : Getting to Equal
By measuring where the law treats men and women differently, this book shines a light on how women's incentives or capacity to work are affected by the legal environment and... -
Women, Business and the Law 2012 : Removing Barriers to Economic Inclusion
Women, business and the law focuses on this critical piece of the puzzle, objectively highlighting differentiations on the basis of gender in 141 economies around the world,... -
Women, Business and the Law 2018
How can governments ensure that women have the same employment and entrepreneurship opportunities as men? One important step is to level the legal playing field so that the... -
Women, Business and the Law 2019 : A Decade of Reform
The World Bank Group’s Women, Business and the Law examines laws and regulations affecting women’s prospects as entrepreneurs and employees across 187 economies. Its goal is to... -
Women, Business and the Law 2020
Women, Business and the Law 2020, the sixth edition in a series, analyzes laws and regulations affecting women’s economic inclusion in 190 economies. The Women, Business and the... -
Women, Business and the Law 2022
Women, Business and the Law 2022 is the eighth in a series of annual studies measuring the laws and regulations that affect women's economic opportunity in 190 economies. The... -
Women, Business and the Law 2021
Women, Business and the Law 2021 is the seventh in a series of annual studies measuring the laws and regulations that affect women’s economic opportunity in 190 economies. The...