Women are underrepresented in jobs in natural resources sectors. For example, only 5 to 10 percent of those employed in large-scale mining projects globally are women. Women-owned businesses are also often...
Among unemployed youth in South Africa, approximately 50 percent have not completed secondary education and have limited or no work experience. In this context, reliable signals of worker qualifications...
The Solomon Island’s Community Access and Urban Services Enhancement (CAUSE) project, with the support of UFGE, undertook a study which identified a set of 18 recommendations to increase the participation...
Gender inequalities in access to economic opportunity, earnings, and productivity persist across the East Asia and Pacific region, as emphasized in Toward Gender Equality in East Asia and the Pacific:...
As emphasized in Toward Gender Equality in East Asia and the Pacific: A Companion Report to the World Development Report (World Bank 2012), gender inequality in access to economic opportunities, earnings...
The findings presented here, from a World Bank study led by the Trade and Competitiveness Practice of the World Bank, fill the gap in our knowledge about the patterns of small-scale cross-border trade...
The EAP Umbrella Facility for Gender Equality was established in response to the World Bank’s 2012 World Development Report, which focused on gender. The EAP-UFGE aims to strengthen the capacity for undertaking...