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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...
Small Business Training to Improve Management Practices in D...
This paper revisits and reassesses the evidence for whether small business training works, incorporating the results of recent studies. A meta-analysis of these estimates suggests that training increa...
Advancing Women’s Economic Empowerment: Private Sector Engag...
This landscaping study researched the drivers of company investment in increasing women’s participation, focusing on evidence for the impact of company policies, practices, and programs. More specific...
Exploring the Role of Public Expenditure in Advancing Female...
This paper discusses connections between female economic empowerment and government spending. It offers a preliminary exploration of key factors and indicators associated with gender-differentiated im...
Women’s Empowerment, Gender Budgeting, and Intersection with...
Gender inequality carries significant economic costs by keeping women from realizing their full potential. Moreover, climate change threatens to exacerbate gender inequalities around the world further...
Gender-Response Climate Governance and the Role of Women Lea...
This study explores the intersection between climate governance and gender diversity and inclusion (gender D&I) in companies based in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). It is designed ...
Gender-Inclusive Legislative Framework and Laws to Strengthe...
Globally, women are disproportionately impacted by climate change and disasters due to gender inequalities and limited opportunities to participate in decision-making processes. The report provides a ...
How Well do Economic Empowerment Efforts Prevent Intimate Pa...
The Word Bank’s South Asia Region Gender Innovation Lab has conducted an evidence review of findings from women’s economic empowerment (WEE) interventions with direct measures of intimate partner viol...
How Well Do Economic Empowerment Efforts Prevent Child Marri...
The World Bank’s South Asia Region Gender Innovation Lab has conducted an evidence review of findings on economic empowerment interventions with direct measures of child marriage (CM) in South Asia (S...