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This brief examines the costs of these gender gaps and estimates the potential gains from closing them
This article studies the take‐up of an intervention designed to increase women’s economic empowerment among sugarcane farmers in Uganda.
This study examines the impacts of a couples' workshop on gender norms, decision making, and women's economic participation
This study conducted 2 randomized controlled trials to evaluate this training on the performance of women-owned micro and small enterprises
Over the last decade, Cote d’Ivoire has witnessed a remarkable shrinking of its gender gap in agricultural productivity
Evidence from the Africa gender innovation lab on mechanisms that can help protect the lives and livelihoods of women and girls
This study conducted an experiment that facilitated the job application and onboarding process for young female job seekers at 3 factories
Investigates whether the relative self-esteem of spouses can lead to within-household competition for inputs and affect economic gender inequality in the home.
This note examines how sensitive the demand for business training is to price, and whether charging a higher price causes firm owners to exert more effort
This report seeks to focus attention on the challenges that Africa’s women entrepreneurs face and identify practical solutions
This report presents evidence on the mechanisms underlying gender gaps in the Ethiopian workforce.
The World Bank’s Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) conducts impact evaluations of development interventions
Using Mobile Sensing to Understand the Financial Behaviors of Entrepreneurs
This project encouraged households to register at least one of their sugarcane blocks with the wife instead of the husband
These results show how safe spaces interventions can be effective even in the face of large-scale shocks such as Ebola crises
The World Bank Ethiopia team, in collaboration with the government, designed phone surveys with firms and households
This paper investigates global data on female and male enterprises operating in sectors that are typically dominated by the same and opposite sex
Evidence from India
This paper examines women's power relative to that of their husbands in 23 Sub-Saharan African countries
Changes in Determinants and Distributional Composition over the Past Decade
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