Gender

Why we must engage adolescent girls in climate change solutions

Learn about the negative impact climate change has on adolescent girls living in poverty and why girls are key to climate change solutions.

Uraidah Hassani|
Climate Change, Gender

Laws across the world fail to consider disability and gender

Documentation of legal barriers to women’s economic opportunities often overlooks accessibility related to both disability and gender. To fill this gap, the Women, Business and the Law project…

Julia Braunmiller, Marie Dry|
Education, Financial Inclusion, Gender, Governance, Jobs & Development, Social Protection

Policy Research Working Paper series publication roundup for September 16-30

This blog is a biweekly feature highlighting recent World Bank Group working papers. It introduces four papers published in the second half of September 2022 on various topics, including paid…

Marcelo Buitron, Policy Research Working Paper team|
Climate Change, Financial Inclusion, Gender, Governance, Jobs & Development, Poverty, Urban Development

The urgent need for data to understand the link between taxation and women’s economic empowerment

Taxation offers an objective and measurable benchmark for global progress toward gender equality. However, we lack a global picture of how women are treated by tax policies. To address the gap,…

Hannelore Maria Leona Niesten, Marie Caitriona Hyland|
Competitiveness, Debt, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector, Gender, Governance, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management

Gender differences in social preferences: Lessons from a day care experiment in Rio de Janeiro

This working paper investigates the role that early education plays in children’s economic preferences and decision-making abilities. The research surveyed about 2,100 applicant children of public…

Joana Cardim Dias, Pedro Carneiro, Leandro Carvalho, Damien de Walque|
Education, Gender
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