Only 2 in 5 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) graduates in Belize is a woman. Young women are 20 percentage points more likely than young men to be out of employment, not in education,...
Type: BriefReport#: 180613Date: March 6, 2023Author:
Maquera Sardon,Daniela Andrea ;
Galeano Servian,Diana Maria
Less than 1 in 3 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) graduates in Ecuador is a woman. Young women are 17 percentage points more likely than young men to be out of employment, not in...
Type: BriefReport#: 180617Date: March 6, 2023Author:
Maquera Sardon,Daniela Andrea ;
Galeano Servian,Diana Maria
Boys in St. Kitts and Nevis are 5 percentage points less likely than girls to complete lower secondary education. Men are half as likely than women to enroll in tertiary education. Women hold only 25 percent...
Type: BriefReport#: 180623Date: March 6, 2023Author:
Maquera Sardon,Daniela Andrea ;
Galeano Servian,Diana Maria
This note summarizes some stylized facts implied by the latest Bilateral Remittances Matrix (BRM) published by KNOMAD in late December 2022. The EU-27 countries as a group form the second most important...
Type: BriefReport#: 193086Date: March 6, 2023Author:
Ratha, Dilip ;
Kim, Eung Ju
Less than 1 in 3 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) graduates in Mexico is a woman. Young women are 16 percentage points more likely than young men to be out of employment, not in...
Type: BriefReport#: 180626Date: March 6, 2023Author:
Maquera Sardon,Daniela Andrea ;
Galeano Servian,Diana Maria
Although declining, St. Vincent and the Grenadine’s adolescent fertility rate remains higher than average for upper middle-income countries. Boys are 8 percentage points less likely than girls to complete...
Type: BriefReport#: 180633Date: March 6, 2023Author:
Maquera Sardon,Daniela Andrea ;
Galeano Servian,Diana Maria
Young women in Bolivia are 8 percentage points more likely than young men to be out of employment, not in education, or in training. 1 in 4 women have experienced physical and or sexual intimate partner...
Type: BriefReport#: 180614Date: March 6, 2023Author:
Maquera Sardon,Daniela Andrea ;
Galeano Servian,Diana Maria
Although slowly declining, Nicaragua has consistently higher fertility rates than regional and structural peers. Women in Nicaragua are 14 percentage points more likely than men to have vulnerable jobs....
Type: BriefReport#: 180628Date: March 6, 2023Author:
Maquera Sardon,Daniela Andrea ;
Galeano Servian,Diana Maria
The COVID-19 pandemic created an urgent need for timely information to help monitor and mitigate the socio-economic impact of the crisis. This information is essential to inform policy measures for protecting...
Type: BriefReport#: 191295Date: March 5, 2023Author:
World Bank
In June 2020, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics, with the support from the World Bank, has launched the High-Frequency Phone Survey on COVID-19 to track the impacts of the pandemic on a monthly basis for...
Type: BriefReport#: 180634Date: March 3, 2023Author:
Atamanov,Aziz ;
Cochinard,Frederic Pierre Francois Hugue ;
Ilukor,John ;
Kemigisha, Audrey ;
Kilic,Talip ;
Mupere, Andrew ;
Ponzini,Giulia ;
Clark,Samuel Thomas
Boys in Dominica are 3 times less likely than girls to complete lower secondary education. Women are 16 percentage points less likely than men to have formal employment. There are 7 times more reported...
Type: BriefReport#: 180480Date: March 1, 2023Author:
Maquera Sardon,Daniela Andrea ;
Galeano Servian,Diana Maria
Young men in Barbados are 7 percentage points more likely than young women to be out of employment, not in education, or in training. Men are 10 percentage points more likely than women to have vulnerable...
Type: BriefReport#: 180477Date: March 1, 2023Author:
Maquera Sardon,Daniela Andrea ;
Galeano Servian,Diana Maria
The Republic of Congo (ROC) is at a critical juncture in its development history. ROC’s seven-year recession, spurred by the end of the last commodity super cycle, has led to a dramatic drop in income...
Type: BriefReport#: 180781Date: March 1, 2023Author:
World Bank
Women’s groups models vary widely across contexts but context-specific documentation is limited. This wide variation coupled with inconsistent terms used to describe these groups creates challenges in...
Type: BriefReport#: 180828Date: March 1, 2023Author:
Hoop, Thomas de ;
Udayakumar Holla,Chinmaya ;
Das, Aikantika ;
Desai, Sapna
With exports declining and imports remaining stable, Myanmar returned to a trade deficit in the six months to March 2023. Manufacturing exports declined from the high levels reaching in the second half...
Type: BriefReport#: 183434Date: March 1, 2023Author:
World Bank
Despite gender parity in access to microfinance, and many group-based microfinance schemes favoring women, women face more difficulty than men in getting loans of larger size, longer duration, individual...
The September 2022 update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) involves two changes to the data underlying the global poverty estimates. First, this update adopts the 2017 Purchasing Power Parities...
Only 1 in 3 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) graduates in Costa Rica is a woman. Young women are 6 percentage points more likely than young men to be out of employment, not in education,...
Type: BriefReport#: 180479Date: March 1, 2023Author:
Maquera Sardon,Daniela Andrea ;
Galeano Servian,Diana Maria
The World Bank’s South Asia Region Gender Innovation Lab (SARGIL) is conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions with direct or indirect effects on measures of women’s economic empowerment....
Type: BriefReport#: 180985Date: March 1, 2023Author:
Javed,Amna ;
Zahra,Najaf ;
Munoz Boudet,Ana Maria
Countries are facing increasingly complex climate-related challenges that undermine resilience and require integrated and innovative solutions. Nature-based solutions (NBS) have emerged as cost effective...
Type: BriefReport#: 180946Date: March 1, 2023Author:
World Bank
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