particularly so for women. This new report, “Profiting from Parity: Unlocking the Potential of Women’s Businesses in Africa …, seeks to focus attention on the challenges that Africa’s women entrepreneurs face and identify practical solutions. The … to growth and profitability faced by women entrepreneurs. It goes beyond looking at contextual, endowment and household …

Intimate partner violence is the most common form of violence against women in conflict and non-conflict settings, but …-based difference-in-difference model to examine the effect of the Boko Haram insurgency on women's experience of physical and sexual … intimate partner violence. It also examines the effect of the Boko Haram insurgency on women's experience of controlling …

Trade can dramatically improve women’s lives, creating new jobs, enhancing consumer choices, and increasing women … policy on both women and men and to develop appropriate, evidence-based policies to ensure that trade helps to enhance … connections among the economic roles that women play as workers, consumers, and decision makers. Building on new analyses and new …

particular difficulties in accessing the labor market, namely women and youth, and advances hypotheses regarding key barriers to … provides an overview of recent trends in wages and of conditional wage gaps along a number of dimensions (men/women, public …