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entrepreneurs face gender biases stemming from socio-economic factors or specific biases in laws such as inheritance laws. …
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policy insights. This paper first describes key employment trends in India by gender. Then the potential determinants of …
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Goals, drawing on learning from the Social Institutions and Gender Index and in-country research by the OECD Policy Dialogue … tasks more equally between men and women by transforming gender stereotypes. …
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Integrating gender dimensions into early warning systems is critical to support equitable crisis prevention and … and West Africa are gender-responsive and highlights existing gaps at national and regional levels. Progress has been made … by key partners and stakeholders towards strengthening the gender analysis of FNS EWS, however, these efforts have not …
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the ways in which gender inequality is a critical factor in understanding vulnerability and resilience efforts concerning … at the household, community, and state levels. In particular, gender inequalities within the Sahel pose a very real … populations. The paper then explores what development and state institutions are doing to resolve gender inequity through climate …
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, political and human rights have been accompanied by impressive reductions in gender gaps. However, discriminatory social … Gender Index (SIGI) aims to provide policy makers with the necessary tools and evidence to design more effective gender …-responsive policies. Putting social institutions at the core of policy responses may open new and sustainable vistas to promote gender …
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We show that the news is a rich source of data on distressed firm links that drive firm- level and aggregate risks. The news tends to report about links in which a less popular firm is distressed and may contaminate a more popular firm. This constitutes a contagion channel that yields...
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This paper introduces the OECD Weekly Tracker of economic activity for 46 OECD and G20 countries using Google Trends search data. The Tracker performs well in pseudo-real time simulations including around the COVID-19 crisis. The underlying model adds to the previous Google Trends literature in...
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In carrying out its banking supervision tasks as part of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), the European Central Bank (ECB) collects and disseminates data on significant and less significant institutions. To ensure harmonised supervisory reporting standards, the data are represented through...
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Machine learning algorithms are now frequently used in sensitive contexts that substantially affect the course of human lives, such as credit lending or criminal justice. This is driven by the idea that 'objective' machines base their decisions solely on facts and remain unaffected by human...
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