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State of Financial Inclusion of Women in Pakistan
World Bank Group - 2018
agenda assumes greater significance for countries like Pakistan, where financial inclusion levels are quite low. It has led … to several policy interventions in Pakistan over the past decade and a half, including the promotion of microfinance, the … in Pakistan. It seeks to map the current state of financial access for women and to provide insights into their financial …
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Palestinian Territories Workforce Development : SABER Country Report 2013
World Bank Group - 2015
This report presents a comprehensive diagnostic of the Palestinian Territories' workforce development (WfD) policies and institutions. The analysis is based on a World Bank research tool created under the Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER) initiative and purposefully designed...
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Romania Workforce Development : SABER Country Report 2017
World Bank Group - 2017
Romania has made considerable progress in recent years towards reducing macroeconomic imbalances. Such reductions, together with monetary policies and structural reforms, either implemented or in progress, have contributed to maintaining macroeconomic and financial stability. After the budget...
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Liberia Tertiary Education : SABER Country Report 2017
World Bank Group - 2017
SABER-Tertiary Education is a diagnostic tool to assess how education systems perform and to identify priorities for reforms at the national level. It is part of the World Bank's Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER), which aims to benchmark education systems at the country...
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Women's Economic Empowerment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo : Obstacles and Opportunities
World Bank Group - 2021
The aim of this report is to identify binding constraints to women's economic empowerment in the DRC and identify promising entry points to unbind these constraints. This report makes three core contributions. It provides: i) a comprehensive picture of gender gaps across the country, ii) an...
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Women, Business and the Law 2021
World Bank Group - 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 project presents eight indicators structured around women's interactions with the law as they move through their lives...
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The Status of Women in Lebanon : Assessing Women's Access to Economic Opportunities, Human Capital Accumulation and Agency
World Bank Group - 2021
This report provides an up-to-date, holistic reference on the state of women in Lebanon against the broader perspective of general development outcomes while taking into consideration the multiple crises the country is facing. The report presents a data-driven analysis of three key dimensions of...
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Using Behavioral Science in Communication Outreach to Increase Female Participation in Natural Resource Management in Mexico
World Bank Group - 2022
While a range of public programs in Mexico exist to incentivize communities to conserve and manage forest natural resources, a gender gap persists in the use of these initiatives. The experiment discussed in this report was commissioned by the climate investment funds' (CIF) evaluation and...
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Closing Gaps, Increasing Opportunities : A Diagnostic on Women's Economic Empowerment in Nigeria
World Bank Group - 2022
As Nigeria faces the immediate challenge of stimulating economic recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic and corresponding economic shocks, it also can address the sizable gender gaps that undermine women's economic empowerment and hinder inclusive economic growth. Gender...
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Women, Business and the Law 2022
World Bank Group - 2022
Women, Business and the Law 2022 is the eighth in a series of annual studies measuring progress toward gender equality in 190 economies by examining the laws and regulations that affect women's economic opportunity. The project presents eight indicators structured around women's interactions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013209217