Young women in Guyana are 15 percentage
points more likely than young men to be out of employment,
not in education, or in training. Although declining,
Guyana’s...
Type: BriefReport#: 180619Date: March 6, 2023Author:
Maquera Sardon,Daniela Andrea ;
Galeano Servian,Diana Maria
Uruguay’s adolescent
fertility rate is 5 times higher than the average rate for
high-income countries. Young women are 3 percentage points
more likely than young...
Type: BriefReport#: 180632Date: March 6, 2023Author:
Maquera Sardon,Daniela Andrea ;
Galeano Servian,Diana Maria
Only 1 in 3 Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) graduates in Honduras is
a woman. Young women are almost 29 percentage points more
likely than young...
Type: BriefReport#: 180620Date: March 6, 2023Author:
Maquera Sardon,Daniela Andrea ;
Galeano Servian,Diana Maria
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...
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...
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...
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...
Type: BriefReport#: 193086Date: March 6, 2023Author:
Ratha,Dilip Kumar ;
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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,...
Type: BriefReport#: 180781Date: March 1, 2023Author:
World Bank
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....
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...
Type: BriefReport#: 180477Date: March 1, 2023Author:
Maquera Sardon,Daniela Andrea ;
Galeano Servian,Diana Maria
Women’s groups models vary
widely across contexts but context-specific documentation is
limited. This wide variation coupled with inconsistent terms
used to describe...
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...
Type: BriefReport#: 183434Date: March 1, 2023Author:
World Bank
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...
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...
Type: BriefReport#: 180868Date: March 1, 2023Author:
Alibhai,Aly Salman ;
Cassidy,Rachel Margaret ;
Ebrahim,Menaal Fatima ;
Goldstein,Markus P. ;
Edey,Yemsrach Kinfe ;
Papineni,Sreelakshmi
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