Reports and Publications

Working long hours and having no choice: time poverty in Guinea, Policy Research Working Paper, June 2009

This paper provides a new definition of 'time poverty' as working long hours and having no choice to do otherwise.

"Girls’ Education in the 21 st Century: Gender, Equality, Empowerment, and Economic Growth"(2008)  (PDF 2.11MB) This publication is based on the background papers developed for the Global Symposium on Gender and Education, October 2007. 

Videos and Presentation| Feature Story- Girl Power..

Gender Action Plan Newsletter Fall 2008 and March 2008
Discover more about the World Bank’s Gender Action Plan (GAP), see how it is being translated into action on the ground, and keep up to date with any GAP related news.

"Equality for Women: Where Do We Stand?"

The results towards gender equality are mixed at the halfway point of completion of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the new report by the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) says. Women’s health and education have improved substantially in most countries, but progress is lagging on improving their economic opportunities, and investments of some US$13 billion a year are needed to achieve the overall goal of gender equality and women’s empowerment.  Press releasein English, French, Spanish   ( PDF 5.2MB)

Gender and asset ownership: a guide to collecting individual-level data, September, 2008

This chapter aims to shed light on the nature of men’s and women’s enterprises in Africa, to assess the extent to which the constraints and obstacles faced by women and men entrepreneurs may differ, and to address whether the constraints and obstacles entrepreneurs face affect the productivity and performance of men’s and women’s businesses differently.  

Development Outreach

Development OUTREACH is a flagship magazine in the field of global knowledge for development which reflects the learning programs of the World Bank and presents a range of viewpoints by renowned authors and specialists worldwide. The magazine is designed to occupy a middle ground between the scholarly journal and the general interest magazine.

• HIV/AIDS Prevention and Youth: Changing knowledge, attitudes, and behavior (June 2007)
  Outreach article on HIV/AIDS prevention challenges amongst young people.
  
• Gender Shapes Adolescence (June 2007)
  Article on the different directions that gender causes young people’s lives to go in when they reach adolescence, and the challenges this presents for policy making.

• A brochure, Gender Equality as Smart Economics:  A World Bank Gender Action Plan (2007)  (1MG) 
  
• Do Traditional Axes of Exclusion Affect Labor Market Outcomes in India? , Maitreyi Bordia Das (June 2006)
  Part I: Female Labor Force Participation And the Effects of Gender
  Part II: Caste, Ethnicity and the Indian Labor Market
  
• Report on the role of the GENFUND (2006)
  
• Improving Women's Lives: World Bank Actions since Beijing (2005)
  
• Gender and Economic Policy website
  
• Promising Approaches to Engendering Development
  
• Policy Research Working Paper on preventing and responding to gender-based violence (2004)
  
• Gender Equality & The Millennium Development Goals (2003)
  
• Report on Engendering Development through Gender Equality in Rights, Resources, and Voice (2001)
  
• Gender Mainstreaming Strategy Paper (Sep. 2001)
  
• Gender Monitoring Reports
  
• OED Gender Evaluations

 

 

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