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Opening Opportunities, Closing Gaps: Advancing Gender-Equal ...
Slow progress toward access to clean cooking solutions has significant negative impacts on women, including harming health from disproportionate exposure to household air pollution, safety hazards and...
Pathways to Power: South Asia Baseline Assessment for Women ...
To better understand the gaps and barriers impacting women in the South Asian energy sector, the World Bank conducted a regional baseline assessment. The study collected data from over 100 energy sect...
Getting to Gender Equality in Energy Infrastructure: Lessons...
Access to modern and clean forms of energy is considered critical to gender equality—beyond its intrinsic value as a core development objective— and increasingly recognized as smart economics. Under t...
Exploring Opportunities for Gender Diversity in the Mining a...
This report is the first targeted gender assessment in the areas of mining and energy in Serbia. It aims to stimulate dialogue among policy makers, companies, and other relevant actors on how best to ...
A Methodological Framework for the Geospatial Assessment of ...
Current approaches to assessing women’s employment opportunities fail to recognize that geography and place play an essential role in enabling women to work outside the home. How will this affect empl...
Building the Business Case for Women’s Inclusive Financing i...
One of the key constraints in improving energy access in the renewable energy sector is the availability and affordability of financing, especially for women-owned or -led micro, small, or medium ente...
Enhancing Gender Equality in Infrastructure Development Theo...
This paper outlines the case for why investing in gender equality and women’s empowerment as part of infrastructure projects makes sense, particularly the business case. Opportunities are highlighted ...
Understanding the Interaction between Gender, Energy, and Fo...
Women bear the greatest burden from energy poverty, and forced displacement further entrenches gender inequalities. This brief aims to advance understanding of how energy access can help bridge gender...
The Role of Technology in Reducing the Gender Gap in Product...
This paper explores new firm-level data to examine the gender gap in technology adoption and the associated effect on firm performance. The data show a small difference in technology sophistication be...
South Asia Development Update: Jobs for Resilience (2024)
South Asia is expected to continue to be the fastest-growing emerging market and developing economy (EMDE) region over the next two years. However, growth in the near-term is more reliant on the publi...
Increasing Women’s Representation in Business Leadership (20...
This World Bank evidence and practice note contributes to understanding the importance of gender-diverse leadership for inclusive and sustainable economic growth, focusing on the critical aspect of wo...
Breaking Barriers: Female Entrepreneurs Who Cross Over to Ma...
This report focuses on sectoral choice as one of the contributors to the gender gap in firm performance. It explores the difference in profits and experiences among female entrepreneurs who cross over...