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Women and trade : the role of trade in promoting gender equality

Weltbankgruppe; World Trade Organization - 2020

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Women and trade : the role of trade in promoting gender equality

World Trade Organization; Weltbankgruppe - 2020

Trade can dramatically improve women’s lives, creating new jobs, enhancing consumer choices, and increasing women’s bargaining power in society. It can also lead to job losses and a concentration of work in low-skilled employment. Given the complexity and specificity of the relationship...

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Measuring and analyzing the impact of GVCs on economic development : global value chains development report 2017

Weltbankgruppe; Ajia Keizai Kenkyūsho <Chiba>; OECD; … - 2017

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Mind, society, and behavior

Weltbankgruppe - 2015

year’s World Development Report argues that a more realistic account of decision-making and behavior will make development … world has made familiar. And social emotions and social norms motivate much of what they do. These insights together explain …

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Governance and the law

Weltbankgruppe - 2017

Why are carefully designed, sensible policies too often not adopted or implemented? When they are, why do they often fail to generate development outcomes such as security, growth, and equity? And why do some bad policies endure? This book addresses these fundamental questions, which are at the...

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Atlas of sustainable development goals 2017 : from world development indicators

Weltbankgruppe - 2017

measurement issues related to each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The Atlas primarily draws on World Development … Indicators (WDI) - the World Bank's compilation of internationally comparable statistics about global development and the quality … important by experts in the World Bank's Global Practices and Cross Cutting Solution Areas. Nevertheless, The Atlas aims to …

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Does gender equality in labor participation bring real equality? : evidence from developed and developing countries

Alfani, Federica; Clementi, Fabio; Fabiani, Michele; … - Weltbankgruppe - 2021

Drawing on various macro- and micro-data sources, the authors present robust evidence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between female labor force participation and inequality. Overall, female labor force participation is found to have a strong and significant dis-equalizing impact in at...

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Monitoring global poverty : report of the Commission on Global Poverty

Weltbankgruppe / Commission on Global Poverty - 2017

In 2013, the World Bank Group announced two goals that would guide its operations worldwide. The first is the ….25 ppp-adjusted dollars a day, to less than 3% of the world population by 2030. The second is the boosting of shared … World Bank make regarding complementary monetary and non-monetary poverty measures to be tracked and made available to …

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Global economic prospects

Weltbankgruppe - 2022

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Water, migration, and development

Zaveri, Esha D.; Russ, Jason; Khan, Amjad; Damania, Richard - Weltbank; Weltbankgruppe - 2021

Migration shapes the lives of those who move and transforms the geographies and economies of their points of departure and destinations alike. The water sector, and the availability of water itself, implicitly and explicitly shape migration flows. Ebb and Flow, Volume 1. Water, Migration, and...

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