The Social Inclusion Trust Fund is intended to support sustained and integrated programs and policies to address social inclusion in the IDB and in Latin America and the Caribbean member countries. Meeting this objective entails dedicated resources to increase awareness among governments in the...

This paper compares gender wage gaps for Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s using the non-parametric matching methodology introduced by Ñopo (2008), which allows an analysis not only of average gaps but also their distributions. While a simple...

In order to assist project companies in understanding and complying with labor requirements, the PRI ESU has developed the present guideline with three main objectives first, to educate and inform project companies, financiers and other relevant parties about the labor rights conditions that for...

The objective of this technical note is to present the work done under the Trade and Gender Initiative led by the Integration and Trade Sector of the Inter-American Development Bank. The technical note emphasizes the process of gender mainstreaming in trade operations conducted by the Bank and...

This document is divided into two components. First, it provides a comparison of the obligations contained under these four agreements and presents the evolution in the language and commitments in them for the 15 year period between 1993 and 2008 during which they were negotiated. Second, it...

Based on participatory field research undertaken in Bondo Highlander villages and households in 2001, provides a situational analysis and needs assessment survey of these tribal people. Investigates their traditional institutions, their livelihood and survival strategies and their sources of...

Using comparable micro-level data from three countries, we ask what type of person works in the informal sector and whether informal workers earn lower wages than observationally equivalent workers in the formal sector. The characteristics of informal workers are similar across countries....