| Title of Publications | Type |
| A Field Experiment on the Role of Socioemotional Skills and Gender for Hiring in Turkey | Academic and Working Paper |
| A Firm of One’s Own: Experimental Evidence on Credit Constraints and Occupational Choice | Academic and Working Paper |
| A Firm of One's Own : Experimental Evidence on Credit Constraints and Occupational Choice | Academic and Working Paper |
| A Firm of One's Own: Experimental Evidence on Credit Constraints and Occupational Choice | Journal article |
| A Typology and Evidence Review of Economic Women’s Groups Programs in South Asia | Policy Brief |
| Accelerating Gender Equality in Somalia - Breaking Barriers, Creating Opportunities | Report |
| Addressing Gender-Based Occupational Segregation : Experimental Evidence from the Republic of Congo | Policy Brief |
| Addressing Gender-Based Segregation through Information: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in the Republic of Congo | Academic and Working Paper |
| Admired in Theory, Pushed Out in Practice: Challenges Faced by Women Pursuing Work in Male-dominated Sectors in Guinea, Conakry | Policy Brief |
| Africa's Pulse, No. 20, October 2019: An Analysis of Issues Shaping Africa’s Economic Future | Report |
| Are Cash Transfers Better Chunky or Smooth? Evidence from an Impact Evaluation of a Cash Transfer Program in Northern Nigeria | Policy Brief |
| Are Mobile Savings the Silver Bullet to Help Women Grow Their Businesses? | Policy Brief |
| As Good as the Company They Keep? Improving Farmers’ Social Networks | Policy Brief |
| Assessing Admiration for Women Who Do "Men’s Work"” | Journal article |
| Assessing Workplace Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Skills in Africa: The ESTEEM Framework | Academic and Working Paper |
| Assessment of Gender Impacts of ITS | Report |
| Attracting, Retaining & Promoting Women in the Workplace is Good for Business: Lessons from the Mashreq | Policy Brief |
| Barriers to Entry: Decomposing the Gender Gap in Job Search in Urban Pakistan | Academic and Working Paper |
| Board Gender Diversity in ASEAN (2019) | Report |
| Bolivia - Challenges and Constraints to Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment | Academic and Working Paper |
| Bosnia & Herzegovina: Economic Mobility, Jobs and Gender | Report |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina Country Economic Memorandum, January 2024 | Report |
| Bridging the Intention-Behavior Gap? The Effect of Plan-Making Prompts on Job Search and Employment | Academic and Working Paper |
| Business Training and Mentoring: Experimental Evidence from Women-Owned Microenterprises in Ethiopia | Academic and Working Paper |
| Can boosting savings and skills support female business owners in Indonesia? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial | Academic and Working Paper |
| Can Job Training Decrease Women’s Self-Defeating Biases?: Experimental Evidence from Nigeria | Academic and Working Paper |
| Can Job Training Decrease Women’s Self-Defeating Biases?: Experimental Evidence from Nigeria | Policy Brief |
| Can Public Works Enhance Welfare in Fragile Economies? The Londo Program in the Central African Republic | Policy Brief |
| Cash Is Queen: Local Economy Effects of Cash Transfers to Women in West Africa | Academic and Working Paper |
| Childcare, COVID-19 and Female Firm Exit : Impact of COVID-19 School Closure Policies on Global Gender Gaps in Business Outcomes | Academic and Working Paper |
| Closing Gaps, Increasing Opportunities : A Diagnostic on Women’s Economic Empowerment in Nigeria | Report |
| Closing the Gap : Gender, Transport, and Employment in Mumbai | Academic and Working Paper |
| Coding Bootcamps for Female Digital Employment: Evidence from an RCT in Argentina and Colombia | Academic and Working Paper |
| Conscious Coupling: Impact of a Skills Intervention to Address Intrahousehold Constraints for Women Entrepreneurs in Ethiopia | Academic and Working Paper |
| Coping with COVID-19 Shocks in Western Uganda | Policy Brief |
| Costing the Gender Gap | Policy Brief |
| COVID-19 Pandemic Through a Gender Lens | Policy Brief |
| Cultivating Collaboration through Joint Participation: Evidence from a Video-Based Nutrition-Sensitive Agricultural Extension Program in Ethiopia | Academic and Working Paper |
| Cultivating Collaboration Through Joint Participation: Evidence from a Video-Based Nutrition-Sensitive Agricultural Extension Program in Ethiopia | Journal article |
| Designing Targeted Business Trainings for Impact: Insights from a Women Entrepreneurs' Program in Tanzania | Policy Brief |
| Determinants of Vocational Training Choices in High-Paying Sectors in Côte d’Ivoire: A Gender Perspective | Journal article |
| Diagnostic Study of Barriers for Strengthening Livelihoods of Low-Income Rural Women in Uzbekistan | Report |
| Digital vs In-Person Business Training at Scale: Cautionary Lessons from a Randomized Trial in Ethiopia | Policy Brief |
| Do Factory Jobs Improve Welfare? Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia” by Girum Abebe, Niklas Buehren, and Markus Goldstein, World Bank Economic Review | Journal article |
| Driving Better Business Results with Women’s Insurance | Report |
| Electrification and Women's Empowerment: Evidence from Rural India | Academic and Working Paper |
| Engaging Men for Women’s Economic Empowerment: Overview of the Evidence | Policy Brief |
| Enhancing the Economic Participation of Vulnerable Young Women in Solomon Islands | Report |
| Enterprising Women: Toward Equal Business Opportunity in Southeast Asia | Report |
| Estimating the Demand for Business Training : Evidence from Jamaica | Academic and Working Paper |
| Estimating the Demand for Business Training: Evidence from Jamaica | Journal article |
| Ethiopia Gender Diagnostic Report: Priorities for Promoting Equity | Report |
| Ethiopia Women Agribusiness Leaders Network Impact Evaluation: Baseline Survey Report | Report |
| Explaining Gender Differences in Economic Outcomes in Burkina Faso | Academic and Working Paper |
| Exploring the drivers of youth pursuing vocational training in high-paying sectors in Cote d'Ivoire | Journal article |
| Facilitar la transición de la escuela al trabajo de las mujeres jóvenes | Policy Brief |
| Facilitating the School to Work Transition of Young Women | Policy Brief |
| Female Enrollment in Male-Dominated Vocational Training Courses: Preferences and Prospects | Policy Brief |
| Female Labor Force Participation in Pakistan: What Do We Know? | Policy Brief |
| Finding the Time and labor to Farm: How Social Dynamics Drive Gender Differences in Agricultural Labor in Southern Nigeria (2023) | Policy Brief |
| Fostering Skills for Young Women in Argentina | Policy Brief |
| From Cash to Accounts: Switching How Women Save in Uganda | Policy Brief |
| From Learning to Earning: An Impact Evaluation of the Digital Opportunity Trust Entrepreneurship Training | Policy Brief |
| Full Esteem Ahead? Mindset-Oriented Business Training in Ethiopia | Academic and Working Paper |
| Gender and Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa: Review of Constraints and Effective Interventions | Academic and Working Paper |
| Gender and Microfinance in Myanmar: The Business Case for Action | Report |
| Gender and Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Constraints and Effective Interventions | Academic and Working Paper |
| Gender differences in agricultural productivity in Côte d'Ivoire: Distribution, drivers, and changes over time | Journal article |
| Gender Differences in Socio-Emotional Skills and Economic Outcomes: New Evidence from 17 African Countries | Academic and Working Paper |
| Gender Dimensions of Tanzania’s Labor Market 2024 | Guidance Note |
| Gender Gap in Earnings in Vietnam: Why Do Vietnamese Women Work in Lower Paid Occupations? | Policy Brief |
| Gender Gap in Earnings in Vietnam: Why Do Vietnamese Women Work in Lower Paid Occupations? | Academic and Working Paper |
| Gender Gap in Earnings in Vietnam: Why Do Vietnamese Women Work in Lower Paid Occupations? | Journal article |
| Gender Impacts of COVID-19 on the Labor Market and Household Wellbeing in Pakistan | Journal article |
| Gender, Mobility and Middle Class in Europe and Central Asia: Insights from Qualitative Research | Academic and Working Paper |
| Gender-dimensions of Collective Forest Tenure Reform in China | Report |
| Gender-Segregated Transportation in Ride-Hailing: Navigating the Debate | Report |
| Gender-Specific Impacts of Road Improvement: What Can Be Done to Ensure that Better Roads Expand Economic Opportunities for All | Policy Brief |
| Getting to Work: Unlocking Women's Potential in Sri Lanka's Labor Force | Report |
| Ghana Country Policy and Institutional Assessment | Report |
| Haiti Adolescent Girl Initiative (AGI): Project Report | Report |
| How Have Firms Fared in Times of COVID-19 in Addis Ababa : Evidence from Eight Rounds of High-Frequency Phone Surveys | Report |
| How Should the Government Bring Small Firms into the Formal System? | Academic and Working Paper |
| How should the government bring small firms into the formal system? Experimental evidence from Malawi | Journal article |
| How to Address Constraints Underlying Gender Disparities in Mongolia’s Labor Market | Policy Brief |
| How to Ensure Better Outcomes for Women in Resettlement | Report |
| Impacts of COVID-19 on Labor Markets and Household Well-Being in Pakistan: Evidence from an Online Job Platformn | Policy Brief |
| Improving the Integration of Women in Kosovo's Labor Market: What Can the Public Employment Agency Do? | Academic and Working Paper |
| In It to Win It ? Self-Esteem and Income-Earning among Couples | Academic and Working Paper |
| Incorporating Spousal Support into a Mindset-focused Business Training For Women in Ethiopia | Policy Brief |
| Increasing Female Labor Force Participation | Policy Brief |
| Increasing Women’s Empowerment: Implications for Family Welfare | Academic and Working Paper |
| Investing to Unlock the Potential of Nigeria’s Women Farmers | Policy Brief |
| Job Search and Hiring with Limited Information about Workseekers' Skills | Academic and Working Paper |
| Job Search and Hiring with Two-Sided Limited Information about Workseekers' Skills | Academic and Working Paper |
| Kosovo Country Report: Findings from the Skills towards Employment and Productivity Survey | Report |
| Labor Market Discrimination and Sorting: Evidence from South Africa | Academic and Working Paper |
| Labor Supply Complementarities in Urban Côte d‘Ivoire | Policy Brief |
| Lao PDR Gender Factbook: Bridging Economic and Social Empowerment Gaps 2024 | Guidance Note |
| Losing ground in the field: An exploratory analysis of the relationship between work and mental health amongst women in conflict affected Democratic Republic of the Congo (2023) | Academic and Working Paper |
| Mashreq : Maximizing the Impact of Gender-Lens Investing and Business Practices for Forcibly Displaced Women | Policy Brief |
| Maternal Work and Children’s Development : Examining 20 Years of Evidence | Paper |
| Maternity Leave and Women’s Labor Market Status in Kosovo: Five Key Messages | Academic and Working Paper |
| Middle East and North Africa Regional Gender Action Plan 2025-2030 | Report |
| Middle East and North Africa Regional Gender Action Plan 2025–30 | Report |
| Motivating Teams : Private Feedback and Public Recognition at Work | Academic and Working Paper |
| New Insights on Women’s Employment in Ethiopia’s Industrial Parks | Policy Brief |
| No Household Left Behind: Afghanistan Targeting the Ultra Poor Impact Evaluation | Academic and Working Paper |
| Occupational Sex Segregation in Agriculture : Evidence on Gender Norms and Socio-Emotional Skills in Nigeria | Academic and Working Paper |
| Occupational sex segregation in agriculture: Evidence on gender norms and socio-emotional skills in Nigeria | Journal article |
| Overcoming Information Asymmetry in Job Search: The Power of a Reference Letter | Policy Brief |
| Overcoming the Challenges Women Face in Technical and Vocational Training in Côte d’Ivoire | Report |
| Pathways out of Extreme Poverty : Tackling Psychosocial and Capital Constraints with a Multi-faceted Social Protection Program in Niger | Academic and Working Paper |
| Pathways to Prosperity for Adolescent Girls in Kenya | Policy Brief |
| Perceptions of Precariousness: A Qualitative Study of Constraints Underlying Gender Disparities in Mongolia's Labor Market | Report |
| Personal Initiative Training Leads to Remarkable Growth of Women-Owned Small Businesses in Togo | Policy Brief |
| Peru: Seizing Opportunities for Growth and Prosperity | Report |
| Policies for Aspirations. And Opportunities | Academic and Working Paper |
| Policy Lessons on Facilitating Labor Markets | Policy Brief |
| Policy Lessons on Social Protection | Policy Brief |
| Precarious Drop: Reassessing Patterns of Female Labor Force Participation in India | Academic and Working Paper |
| Prioritizing Job Creation without Undermining Public Works Construction among Road Improvement Projects in Rural Nicaragua | Academic and Working Paper |
| Profiting from Parity: Unlocking the Potential of Women's Business in Africa | Report |
| Promoting Women's Access to Economic Opportunities in Bosnia and Herzegovina | Policy Brief |
| Promoting Women's Access to Economic Opportunities in Kosovo | Policy Brief |
| Promoting Women's Access to Economic Opportunities in Montenegro | Policy Brief |
| Reducing Gender Gaps in Management: Experimental Evidence from Peru | Policy Brief |
| Reflections of employers' gender preferences in job ads in India : an analysis of online job portal data | Academic and Working Paper |
| Returns to Soft Skills Training in Rwanda | Academic and Working Paper |
| Revitalizing Pakistan’s Fisheries: Options for Sustainable Development | Report |
| Roads to Agency: Effects of Enhancing Women’s Participation in Rural Roads Projects on Women’s Agency – A Comparative Assessment of Rural Transport Projects in Argentina, Nicaragua, and Peru | Report |
| Scalable Solutions to Close Gender Gaps in Nigeria | Policy Brief |
| Shadows of Conflict in Northern and Eastern Sri Lanka: Socioeconomic Challenges and a Way Forward | Report |
| Shifting Spousal Decision-Making Patterns: Whom You Target in an Agricultural Intervention Matters | Academic and Working Paper |
| Short-Run Welfare Impacts of Factory Jobs : Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia | Academic and Working Paper |
| Short-Term and Long-Term Effects of Cash for Work: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Tunisia | Academic and Working Paper |
| Short-Term Impacts of Improved Access to Mobile Savings, with and without Business Training: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania | Academic and Working Paper |
| Soft Skills for Hard Constraints: Evidence from High-Achieving Female Farmers | Academic and Working Paper |
| Soft-skills, networking, and workforce entry: Impacts of a training program for recent graduates in Rwanda | Journal article |
| South Asia Development Update: Women, Jobs, and Growth | Report |
| Steered Away from the Fields: Short-Term Impacts of Oxen on Agricultural Production and Intra-Household Labor Supply | Academic and Working Paper |
| Supporting Women Throughout the Coronavirus (Covid-19) Emergency Response and Economic Recovery | Policy Brief |
| Supporting Women's Livelihoods at Scale: Evidence from a Nationwide Multi-Faceted Program | Academic and Working Paper |
| Tackling psychosocial and capital constraints to alleviate poverty | Academic and Working Paper |
| Tackling the Global Profitarchy: Gender and the Choice of Business Sector | Academic and Working Paper |
| Taking Control: How Financial Inclusion Impacts Labor Supply | Policy Brief |
| Teaching Personal Initiative Beats Traditional Training in Boosting Small Business in West Africa | Journal article |
| Tell Us How We are Doing : Motivating Teams Through Feedback Versus Public Recognition | Policy Brief |
| Testing Gender Discrimination in the Tunisian Labor Market: A Field Experiment | Policy Brief |
| The Business Case for Women's Employment in Agribusiness | Report |
| The Cost of the Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity in Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda | Academic and Working Paper |
| The Demand for, and Impact of, Youth Internships: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Yemen | Academic and Working Paper |
| The Digital Gender Divide: Women in Latin America and the Caribbean in the Digital Era | Policy Brief |
| The Economic Lives of Young Women in the Time of Ebola: Lessons from an Empowerment Program | Academic and Working Paper |
| The Effect of Manager Gender and Performance Feedback: Experimental Evidence from India | Academic and Working Paper |
| The Effect of Manager Gender and Performance Feedback: Experimental Evidence from India | Journal article |
| The Effect of Manager Gender and Performance Feedback: Experimental Evidence from India | Academic and Working Paper |
| The Effects of Working While in School: Evidence from Employment Lotteries | Journal article |
| The Enduring Impacts of a Big Push during Multiple Crises Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan | Academic and Working Paper |
| The Fertility Impacts of Development Programs | Academic and Working Paper |
| The Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 on Labor Markets in Latin America and the Caribbean | Policy Brief |
| The Impact of an Adolescent Girls Employment Program - The EPAG Project in Liberia | Academic and Working Paper |
| The Impact of Employer Discrimination on Female Labor Market Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from Tunisia | Academic and Working Paper |
| The Impact of Soft-Skills Training for Entrepreneurs in Jamaica | Journal article |
| The Impact of Strengthening Agricultural Extension Services: Evidence from Ethiopia | Academic and Working Paper |
| The Impact of Strengthening Agricultural Extension Services: Evidence from Ethiopia | Policy Brief |
| The Impact of Subsidized Access to Nurseries and Employment Services on Mothers’ Labour Market Outcomes and Child Development in Egypt | Journal article |
| The Influence of COVID-19 on Young Women’s Labor Market Aspirations and Expectations in India | Academic and Working Paper |
| The Relationship between Female Labor Force Participation and Violent Conflicts in South Asia | Academic and Working Paper |
| The Social Tax : Redistributive Pressure and Labor Supply | Academic and Working Paper |
| The Status of Women in Lebanon : Assessing Women’s Access to Economic Opportunities, Human Capital Accumulation, and Agency | Report |
| The Value of Reference Letters | Academic and Working Paper |
| Time and Money: A Study of Labor Constraints for Female Cotton Producers in Cote d’Ivoire | Policy Brief |
| Top Policy Lessons in Agriculture | Policy Brief |
| Toward Gender-equitable Fisheries Management in Solomon Island | Report |
| Tunisia Labor Market Field Experiment Paper | Paper |
| Turning Inward and/or Outward: Which socioemotional skills matter the most for women in agribusiness? | Journal article |
| Typology of economic women's groups programs in South Asia | Policy Brief |
| Unequal Burdens, Uneven Benefits | Academic and Working Paper |
| Uneven Recovery in Latin America and the Caribbean : Are Women Being Left Behind? | Policy Brief |
| Unlocking Opportunities for Women and Business: A Toolkit of Actions and Strategies for Oil, Gas, and Mining Companies | Report |
| Up before Dawn: Experimental Evidence from a Cross-Border Trader Training at the DRC-Rwanda Border | Journal article |
| Voices of Europe and Central Asia: New Insights on Shared Prosperity and Jobs | Report |
| Voices to Choices: Bangladesh's Journey in Women's Economic Empowerment | Report |
| Welfare impacts of public works in fragile and conflict affected economies: The Londö public works in the Central African Republic | Journal article |
| What do We Know About Interventions to Increase Women’s Economic Participation and Empowerment in South Asia : Self-help Group Programs | Policy Brief |
| What Do We Know About Interventions to Increase Women’s Economic Participation and Empowerment in South Asia? Financial Products | Policy Brief |
| What do we know about interventions to Increase Women's Economic Empowerment in Southeast Asia? | Policy Brief |
| What Works for Women in the Western Balkans: A Stocktaking of Economic Empowerment Projects | Academic and Working Paper |
| What Works for Women: Assessment of Interventions for Economic Empowerment of Women in Bosnia and Herzegovina | Academic and Working Paper |
| What Works for Women: Assessment of Interventions for Economic Empowerment of Women in FYR Macedonia | Academic and Working Paper |
| What Works for Women: Assessment of Interventions for Economic Empowerment of Women in Kosovo | Academic and Working Paper |
| What Works for Women: Assessment of Interventions for Economic Empowerment of Women in Serbia | Academic and Working Paper |
| What Works for Working Women? Understanding Female Labor Force Participation in Urban Bangladesh | Report |
| What Works in Supporting Women-led Businesses | Policy Brief |
| Why Don’t Jobseekers Search More? Barriers and Returns to Search on a Job Matching Platform | Academic and Working Paper |
| Why is Female Labor Force Participation Low and Stagnant in MENA? Experimental Evidence from Egypt | Policy Brief |
| With or Without Him? Experimental Evidence on Cash Grants and Gender-Sensitive Trainings in Tunisia | Journal article |
| Women and Men in Benin in 2024 | Guidance Note |
| Women and Men in Burkina Faso 2023 | Guidance Note |
| Women and Men in Djibouti 2024 | Guidance Note |
| Women farm what they can manage: How time constraints affect the quantity and quality of labor for married women’s agricultural production in southwestern Nigeria (2022) | Journal article |
| Women Farmers in Timor-Leste: Bridging the Productivity Gap | Academic and Working Paper |
| Women Farmers in Timor-Leste: Bridging the Productivity Gap | Policy Brief |
| Women in Agriculture: The Impact of Male Out-Migration on Women’s Agency, Household Welfare, and Agricultural Productivity | Report |
| Women Wavemakers: Practical Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Women in Coding Bootcamps | Report |
| Women’s Economic Empowerment in Pakistan: An Evidence-Guided Toolkit for More Inclusive Policies | Report |
| Women’s employment and safety perceptions: evidence from low-income neighborhoods of Dhaka, Bangladesh | Policy Brief |
| Women’s Mobility and Labor Supply: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan | Academic and Working Paper |
| Women's Economic Empowerment in Africa | Policy Brief |
| Women's Economic Empowerment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo : Obstacles and Opportunities | Report |
| Women's Employment and Safety Perceptions: Evidence from Low-income Neighbohoods of Dhaka, Bangladesh | Policy Brief |
| Working Under Pressure: Improving Labor Productivity through Financial Innovation | Policy Brief |
WBG Country Core Diagnostics and Macro-Fiscal Program Report Nov 23, 2025
