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Since the return to democracy in 1999, Nigeria has embarked upon an ambitious reform programme towards greater economic openness and liberalisation. As a result, gross domestic product growth picked up consistently, never going below 5% since 2003. Nigeria has become a top recipient of foreign...
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Emerging Africa is based on the fundamental conviction that, unless growth resumes, poverty cannot be reduced in the least developed countries. This study analyses the factors underlying the renewed dynamism of certain African economies in the 1990s. Several countries are, indeed, trying to meet...
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Emerging Africa is based on the fundamental conviction that, unless growth resumes, poverty cannot be reduced in the least developed countries. This study analyses the factors underlying the renewed dynamism of certain African economies in the 1990s. Several countries are, indeed, trying to meet...
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economic barriers to their empowerment have been removed. Without gender equality and women’s empowerment, the Sustainable … Development Goals will not be achieved. Yet investments into gender equality and women’s empowerment are lagging behind … investments for most other goals. Implementing commitments to gender equality and women’s empowerment requires a range of tools …
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The equal inclusion of women in economic life is a key driver of economic growth throughout the world, including the … Pacific Alliance countries of Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. Talent is lost, and future growth suffers, when women do not … to do to advance the equality agenda, and Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru have much to do. While girls and women in the …
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The violence against women indicator presents you with data on: Attitudes toward violence: The percentage of women who … the lifetime: The percentage of women who have experienced physical and/or sexual violence from an intimate partner at … some time in their life Laws on domestic violence: Whether the legal framework offers women legal protection from domestic …
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The Gender, Institutions and Development Database (GID-DB) presents comparative data on discriminatory social institutions related to gender inequality. The database includes the 14 variables of the 2012 Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) as well as the overall rankings and scores for...
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Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls are prerequisites to the realisation of the 2030 Agenda for …
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