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This review of gender issues aims to uncover the main gender gaps in the country, and to identify potential policy … recommendations that could help closing them in the coming years. The note is an input to the development of a Gender Action Plan for … the Andean Countries under the Gender Analysis Work Program.The note lays out a descriptive overview of gender gaps in …
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, the continent has further to go to close gender digital divide. Four hundred million women in low- and middle … further exacerbated the digital gender divide. Digital technologies can and have played a key role in mitigating the economic … aimed at closing the gender digital divide. The World Bank, in partnership with the EQUALS Global Coalition and the GSM …
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, the continent has further to go to close gender digital divide. Four hundred million women in low- and middle … further exacerbated the digital gender divide. Digital technologies can and have played a key role in mitigating the economic … aimed at closing the gender digital divide. The World Bank, in partnership with the EQUALS Global Coalition and the GSM …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013544820
Gender equality is a key foundation of inclusive and sustainable economic development that can translate into long …-term and effective poverty reduction. While gender equality matters on its own as a human right, it also offers instrumental … girls reduces poverty incidence and food insecurity, boosts economic growth and productivity, and enhances investments in …
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This thematic note is part of a broader mixed-method study on gender inequalities in Madagascar, which intends to … illustrate the key gender gaps in the country and shed light on the unique challenges that young Malagasy women face in their … the impacts of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, which further widen preexisting gender gaps and amplify …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014454312
This thematic note is part of a broader mixed-method study on gender inequalities in Madagascar, which intends to … illustrate the key gender gaps in the country and shed light on the unique challenges that young Malagasy women face in their … the impacts of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, which further widen preexisting gender gaps and amplify …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014454313
) 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 disparities in earnings not only hold back the Nigerian economy, they … also represent an opportunity: closing the gender gaps in key economic sectors could yield additional gains of US9 …
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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 …
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This report examines perceived and actual gender differences in the use and management of natural resources and the … with a gender action plan (GAP). The GAP provides concrete recommendations for the inclusion of a gender perspective and … resource management, and REDD+. When designed to take into consideration gender differences, REDD+ related activities and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645982
This review of gender issues aims to uncover the main gender gaps in the country, and to identify potential policy … recommendations that could help closing them in the coming years.The note is an input to the development of a Gender Action Plan for … the Andean Countries under the Gender Analysis Work Program.the note lays out a descriptive overview of gender gaps in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646176