Gender

Digital technologies, child nutrition, and women’s inclusion in Guatemala

Guatemala has the seventh highest rate of chronic malnutrition in the world, and between 2019-2021 56% of the population faced food insecurity.

Aída Romero, Viviana Perego, Javier Romero Haaker|
Digital Development, Gender, Nutrition, Social Protection

The haves and have-nots: Who benefits from civic tech?

Over the decades, the question of who participates in and who is excluded from participation mediated by technology has been the focus of both civic tech critics and proponents. This paper…

Tiago Carneiro Peixoto, Jonathan Mellon, Fredrik Sjoberg|
Digital Development, Education, Gender, Governance

Beti Kamao: Empowering India’s Micro-level Women Entrepreneurs

BETI is World Bank’s pilot in the area of digital financial inclusion to help micro-level women entrepreneurs learn how to use mobile-based solutions to improve their bookkeeping, better manage…

Tushar Arora, Karthik Laxman, Sharmista Appaya|
Digital Development, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector, Gender, Inequality and Shared Prosperity, Poverty

Empower HER to address food and nutrition security in Africa

Food and nutrition insecurity is escalating across the world and at least 123 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) will be in food crisis. Measured gender differences in agricultural…

Hana Brixi, Martien van Nieuwkoop|
Agriculture and Food, Gender, Poverty

Expanding access to childcare helps women, children, and economies

October 11 is International Day of the Girl Child, and there are many reasons for optimism: more girls are in school, and girls are staying in school longer and performing better.

Hana Brixi, Amanda Devercelli, Michal Rutkowski, Jaime Saavedra|
Education, Gender
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