This brief provides an overview of adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Malawi. Adolescent SRHR is important for improving population health outcomes and for supporting human...
Type: BriefReport#: 167551Date: December 1, 2021Author:
World Bank
As the Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) swept the globe, most countries took swift action in response to the pandemic, with most governments temporarily closing schools and businesses and mandating...
Type: BriefReport#: 167544Date: December 1, 2021Author:
World Bank
The country has made major progress in gender equality since the beginning of the century. The government has taken concrete steps to enact policies that address gender inequality, adopting a strong legal...
Type: BriefReport#: 168986Date: December 1, 2021Author:
Galeano Servian, Diana Maria ;
Rubiano Matulevich, Eliana Carolina
This brief provides an overview of adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Nigeria. Adolescent SRHR is important for improving population health outcomes and for supporting human...
Type: BriefReport#: 167552Date: December 1, 2021Author:
World Bank
The Eurobusiness Park Oradea industrial park is an example of such infrastructures developed by a local entity Its main activities are related to the management of industrial parks and attracting investors....
Type: BriefReport#: 168670Date: December 1, 2021Author:
World Bank
Jamaica has made significant strides towards gender equality in the last two decades. Despite improvements in educational attainment, Jamaican women do not have the same access to economic opportunities...
Type: BriefReport#: 168958Date: December 1, 2021Author:
Galeano Servian, Diana Maria ;
Rubiano Matulevich, Eliana Carolina
When looking at human endowments, Honduras has a mixed performance in women’s health outcomes and a poor performance in education. Gender gaps in labor market outcomes are wide, despite recent improvements....
Type: BriefReport#: 168959Date: December 1, 2021Author:
Galeano Servian, Diana Maria ;
Rubiano Matulevich, Eliana Carolina
Trinidad and Tobago have made terms of health outcomes over the past two decades. A recent gender analysis conducted by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago and United Nations Development Program (UNDP)...
Type: BriefReport#: 168948Date: December 1, 2021Author:
Galeano Servian, Diana Maria ;
Rubiano Matulevich, Eliana Carolina
Grenada has made important progress towards gender equality over the past two decades in different aspects. However, the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic evidenced that female employment is...
Type: BriefReport#: 168963Date: December 1, 2021Author:
Galeano Servian, Diana Maria ;
Rubiano Matulevich, Eliana Carolina
When looking at human endowments, El Salvador performs relatively well in terms of women’s health outcomes, but gender gaps remain in education. In terms of economic opportunities, gender gaps in labor...
Type: BriefReport#: 168964Date: December 1, 2021Author:
Galeano Servian, Diana Maria ;
Rubiano Matulevich, Eliana Carolina
Although Belize scores comparatively well on the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) economic participation sub-index, the gender assessment highlighted that employment rates among men strongly exceeded those...
Type: BriefReport#: 168988Date: December 1, 2021Author:
Galeano Servian, Diana Maria ;
Rubiano Matulevich, Eliana Carolina
In 2021, Suriname climbed from rank 77 to 51 on the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Gender Gap Index, making it one of the three countries that most reduced its gender gap in LAC. A recent report by...
Type: BriefReport#: 168949Date: December 1, 2021Author:
Galeano Servian, Diana Maria ;
Rubiano Matulevich, Eliana Carolina
Diabetes is a major health problem in Mexico. The prevalence of diabetes in Mexico for 2019 was estimated at 13.5 percent, the fourth highest in the region. As many as 14 million Mexicans suffer from diabetes,...
Type: BriefReport#: 183603Date: December 1, 2021Author:
Bathanti, Jacob J
Antigua and Barbuda have made progress towards gender equality in health and education over the past decades. Although women perform better than men in educational attainment at the tertiary level, enrolling...
Type: BriefReport#: 168990Date: December 1, 2021Author:
Galeano Servian, Diana Maria ;
Rubiano Matulevich, Eliana Carolina
The burden of unpaid care work, including child and elder care, as well as care of family members living with disabilities, disproportionately falls on women and girls, negatively affecting their labor...
Type: BriefReport#: 167275Date: December 1, 2021Author:
Mossman, Lindsay Suzanne
The December 2021 Vietnam Macro Monitoring discusses some of the following topics: the number of new COVID-19 infections and deaths; economic conditions; merchandise exports; fiscal stance; policy of living...
This brief provides an overview of adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Rwanda. Adolescent SRHR is important for improving population health outcomes and for supporting human...
Type: BriefReport#: 167553Date: December 1, 2021Author:
World Bank
School health and nutrition interventions are among the most ubiquitous public health investments worldwide. The coverage of public investments in education is greatest in high income countries, however,...
Type: BriefReport#: 167547Date: December 1, 2021Author:
World Bank
While Saint Lucia shows a strong performance in equality of economic opportunities, more needs to be done to strengthen women’s voice and agency and some disparities remain in human endowments. The few...
Type: BriefReport#: 168951Date: December 1, 2021Author:
Galeano Servian, Diana Maria ;
Rubiano Matulevich, Eliana Carolina
Peru has made significant progress in advancing gender equality over the past two decades, particularly in access to education and health, outperforming many Latin American countries. Gender gaps in primary...
Type: BriefReport#: 168953Date: December 1, 2021Author:
Galeano Servian, Diana Maria ;
Rubiano Matulevich, Eliana Carolina
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