Comparison between Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and East Asia indicates that gender inequality in education and employment … reducing gender-based asset inequality in SSA is an important development goal. This report documents the structural role of … case that reducing gender inequality would increase growth, efficiency, and welfare. The authors make key recommendations …

A growing body of literature indicates that reducing gender inequalities and increasing women's access to productive … resources greatly improves both welfare and economic productivity. Despite recent gains in some areas, significant gender …. This report examines key gender inequalities and gender-based differences in economic activities, opportunities, and …

legacy delude observers into believing that there is gender equality in the region? While budgets shrink, how can gender be … integrated into country department work programs? To answer these and other pressing questions regarding the gender issue, the … address the lack of Bank knowledge of gender issues in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia Region. The papers from the …

or supports gender discrimination, but must actively protect and guard the interests of both men and women. This paper … context in some of these countries, and examines the effectiveness of these laws in challenging gender relationships. …

This gender assessment has been prepared as an input for the preparation of the World Bank's Country Partnership …

Gender gaps in Togo cut across many dimensions. Inequality starts in childhood, when girls are disadvantaged in access … to schooling because of prevalent social norms and gender roles. It continues into adolescence, when a larger share of …, adolescent pregnancy, and time use patterns shaped by gender norms. In adolescence and adulthood, women face the constraints of …

Achieving inclusive growth and maximizing poverty reduction in the Dominican Republic requires closing existing gender … gaps: from early childhood to working age, and further still into old age. Using a lifecycle approach, this gender …

grant, Strengthening Capacity for Prevention and Response to Sexual- and Gender-Based Violence in Georgia (GBV). The goal of … conflict and Gender-based Violence (GBV). The Global Initiative, financed by the SPF, includes pilot projects across East Asia … as recent steps taken by the Government of Georgia on gender action and GBV response. Given conflicts in Abkhazia and …

Gender equality is a core development objective in its own right, and it is also smart economics. Greater gender … Bank 2011).For example, gender gaps in the Romanian labor market may be harming aggregate productivity due to inefficient …