The “Comprehensive Assessment of the Childcare Landscape in Lebanon: A Mixed Methods Study” analyzes the supply and demand of formal childcare services for children aged 0-3. It provides a review of Lebanon’s...
Increasing female labor force participation is a pressing concern in Mashreq countries. The negative relation between women’s family responsibilities and female labor force participation is well established...
Female labor force participation in the Mashreq is exceptionally low, particularly among mothers with young children. The second State of the Mashreq Women Report: Who Cares? Care Work and Women’s Labor...
Pakistan’s female labor force participation (FLFP) remains low by regional and global standards. Furthermore, data show major disparities between rural and urban FLFP, with the latter being significantly...
En Chile, a un ano del inicio de la pandemia del COVID-19, solo el 46 por ciento de las mujeres hacen parte del mercado laboral, comparado con el 69 por ciento de los hombres. La crisis ha reforzado desbalances...
En Chile, como en la mayoría de los países, los efectos de la crisis por COVID-19 se han traducido en escasez de tiempo y disminución de oportunidades económicas, particularmente para las mujeres. La crisis...
The analysis presented in this study points to persistent and high numbers in Georgia and Armenia of youth who are jobless and/or economically inactive and with limited access to learning and/or training...
Only 58 percent of Georgian women ages 15 and above participate in the labor market, a slightly higher share than the Europe (51 percent) and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)...
This note presents the gender poverty profiles for Colombia using a lifecycle approach. In Colombia, as in the vast majority of countries around the world, girls and boys are consistently poorer than adults...
Gender equality is a core development objective in its own right, and it is also smart economics. Greater gender equality pays off by helping advance a host of development goals, such as improvements in...
This paper uses household surveys from 89 countries to look at gender differences in poverty in the developing world. In the absence of individual-level poverty data, the paper looks at what can we learn...
Gender equality is a core development objective, and it is also a smart development policy. Gender equality is also a key pathway to ensure lasting poverty reduction and shared prosperity. Identifying...
Prospects for faster, more sustainable economic growth and higher living standards in Albania rely on increasing employment opportunities for all. By maintaining the current structure of labor participation...
This brief address older age as a risk factor for gender-motivated violence by providing attention to women survivors aged 50 and older, looking at this specific age group due to the paucity of global...