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Democratizing Innovation to Spur Growth (2025)
Innovation fuels economic growth by generating new businesses and jobs, but today's innovators mostly come from a narrow demographic, resulting in many “lost Einsteins” and “lost Marie Curies.” In thi...
The Global Gender Gap in Innovation and Creativity (2023)
This global analysis of international patent applications from 1999 to 2020 shows that women were involved in 23% of filings and only 13% of listed inventors. While the number of women inventors has s...
Presentations - Women's Voices and Choices: Exploring Agency...
"Greater than the Sum of the Parts? Evidence on Mechanisms Operating in Women's Groups", by Seema Jayachandran – Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University. "When Does Decision-...
Sticky Floors and Glass Ceilings: Gender Wage Gap in Egypt (...
Women in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have the lowest labor force participation globally. This study uses recent data from Egypt to compare wages of men and women in public and priva...
Connecting Economies, Empowering Women (2024)
This report details findings from a multi-year program aimed at promoting regional growth and women’s economic empowerment through trade facilitation and connectivity in the Bangladesh, Bhutan, India,...
How safe transport could unlock women’s labour force partici...
Could safe transport unlock women’s workforce participation in Pakistan? In a recent VoxDev podcast, SAR GIL’s Kate Vyborny discusses how limited mobility keeps women in urban Pakistan out of the labo...
Raising Female Employment in South Asia, One Step at a Time ...
With more than 400 million working-age women outside the labor force, South Asia has a significant loss of economic output. This blog details insights from a 2024 conference focused on policies to boo...
The Productivity of Women- and Men-led Enterprises: In Searc...
Comparisons between women- and men-led firms often assume they operate under similar conditions and constraints – a flawed assumption. This blog summarizes findings from a meta-frontier analysis that ...
When Does Exporting Increase Women’s Employment in The Devel...
This blog highlights key findings from a 2023 study that aims to uncover the intricate channels through which exports impact women’s employment. Analyzing data from nearly 30,000 manufacturing firms a...
Accelerating Impact: Unleashing the Power of Private Sector ...
This blog recaps insights on advancing gender equality in the private sector from panelists representing the public and private sectors, international organizations, and civil society at the 2024 Worl...
Advancing Women’s Economic Empowerment: Private Sector Lands...
This study explores evidence of private sector investments that increase women’s participation in leadership, operations, and supply chains. Drawing on over 500 sources and 46 interviews with multinat...
The Role of Technology in Reducing the Gender Gap in Product...
Using novel firm-level data from 11 countries, this paper sheds light on technology adoption between women- and men-led businesses and how this affects firm performance. While differences in technolog...