This report aims to contribute to the growing need for India-based organizations to support employees and their dependent care needs. Understanding how childcare provisions can support employees, including...
While the private sector is increasingly recognizing that advancing gender equality means better talent, higher productivity, more customers, and a stronger bottom line, progress remains slow. Sri Lanka...
The objective of this directory is to have a repository of women directors that inspire other women to advance and grow and showcase the important role women on boards play in Sri Lanka in the different...
Almost one in 10 of the world’s population, 679 million, are children younger than five years old. To thrive and develop, these children and their older siblings need care. For the International Finance...
Almost one in 10 of the world’s population, 679 million, are children younger than five years old. To thrive and develop, these children and their older siblings need care. For the International Finance...
This publication aims to fill existing gaps in the literature regarding women’s paid employment in agribusiness, especially with respect to emerging economies. Women workers’ contribution to agribusiness...
Gender gaps in employment, however, are not just an emerging or developing economy problem. Developed economies also have a range of gender gaps to tackle. This report is the culmination of the International...
Gender gaps in employment, however, are not just an emerging or developing economy problem. Developed economies also have a range of gender gaps to tackle. This report is the culmination of the International...
This issue includes the following headings: investment - postwar promises; infrastructure - rebuilding seaports; services - telecom's triumph; economics - the cost of conflict; and interview - Francis...
This report analyzes women's role as both consumers and entrepreneurs and identifies women-specific opportunities in the expanding market for modern off-grid lighting. Modern off-grid lighting products...
Research shows that in many countries and sectors women are an untapped economic resource. Their underutilization has a negative impact on the growth that would help boost development and fight poverty...
This gender resource document, made possible through a fruitful collaboration between the Global Reporting Initiative and International Finance Corporation (IFC), will be valuable for companies and other...
This gender resource document, made possible through a fruitful collaboration between the Global Reporting Initiative and International Finance Corporation (IFC), will be valuable for companies and other...
This gender resource document, made possible through a fruitful collaboration between the Global Reporting Initiative and International Finance Corporation (IFC), will be valuable for companies and other...
This gender resource document, made possible through a fruitful collaboration between the Global Reporting Initiative and International Finance Corporation (IFC), will be valuable for companies and other...
This gender resource document, made possible through a fruitful collaboration between the Global Reporting Initiative and International Finance Corporation (IFC), will be valuable for companies and other...
Over the years, the Gender group of the Middle East and North Africa Social and Economic Development division has regularly compiled briefs on the status and progress of women in the region for use by...
Women's entrepreneurship is increasingly recognized as an important factor for economic growth and private sector development. Yet across the world, little quantitative information on female-owned businesses...
Seven hundred miles from Cairo, the Siwa Oasis is located close to the Libyan border in Egypt's Western Desert. Alexander the Great came through here in 331 BC for a consultation with the Oracle of Amun...
This newsletter is a quarterly publication of the Jordan country unit. This issue features: World Bank Contacts; Gender Entrepreneurship Markets; Recent Economic Developments; World Bank Opens a Public...