sex-disaggregated data, Women and Trade: The Role of Trade in Promoting Gender Equality aims to advance the understanding …Trade can dramatically improve women's lives, creating new jobs, enhancing consumer choices, and increasing women … complexity and specificity of the relationship between trade and gender, it is essential to assess the potential impact of trade …

impact all traders similarly. Studies by the World Bank, for example, found that men and women traders often face different …This report summarizes the main challenges that men- and women-led companies (also referred to as traders or trade … for women working in export-oriented sectors. Oftentimes, however, women may face more or different challenges than men …

report focuses on the direct impact of the war on world trade and investment. It identifies five trade and investment …. The report finds that world trade will drop by 1 percent, lowering global GDP by 0.7 percent and GDP of low …

Transition to a new world order with more diffuse distribution of economic power is under way. This first edition of a … new World Bank flagship report, 'Global Development Horizons 2011', focuses on three major international economic trends …

inclusive development model. The theme chapter explains why gender equality has remained elusive in South Asia, and the region … gender disparities as well as generated new ones. It is forcing a shift in priorities and funding across public and private … sectors, with far-reaching effects on the well-being of women and girls. Plans for building back better after the crisis …

The gender and justice study is to understand women's legal issues and justice seeking behaviors in four regions of … Afghanistan. It focuses on four main themes, including: a) women's main legal issues; b) women's justice-seeking choices and … rationale for those choices; c) the challenges women face when trying to access justice institutions; and d) women …

report are to review the current status of gender equality and women's issues in Indonesia; and to provide an evidence base … Menengah Nasional or RPJMN) (2020-2024). Investments in gender equality to close specific gender gaps have the potential to … for the Indonesian Government on specific actions and priority responses needed to close gender gaps to drive the growth …

), comprehensively examines access barriers faced by women and girls in transit who are survivors of GBV across Central America. It …. This report summarizes work conducted over two years and brings to light the multifarious barriers women and girls face in … policy recommendations that countries could implement to ensure effective and accessible GBV services for women and girls in …

Gender equality is important for development-it matters not only for women and girls, and boys and men but also for … framework proposed in the 2012 World Development Report on gender equality and development (World Bank 2012b). According to this … the gaps between women and men in Benin regarding endowments, economic opportunities, and agency-in line with the …