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 …

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 …

-state justice institutions, as can be the case for mullahs. This study looks at the gender dynamics of access to justice services in … and program designers with quantitative evidence to devise approaches that address gender-based inequities in women …

Gender equality is a core development objective in its own right, and it is also a smartdevelopment policy. Gender … Country Gender Profile' seeks to identifywhere progress has been achieved in terms of increasing opportunities for women and … men inBelarus since that last assessment and where further policy action is required. As such, itunderstands gender …