Vietnam has witnessed impressive economic growth in recent decades, but it continues to have a large share of its workers in the informal sector. The lack of a labor contract for workers in the informal...
Type: ReportReport#: 197515Date: February 24, 2025Author:
Himanshi Jain ;
Nga Thi Nguyen ;
Agastya Yeachuri ;
Ha, Pham Bao ;
De, Koustav
The Country Opinion Survey in Togo assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Togo perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local...
Type: ReportReport#: 197508Date: February 21, 2025Author:
World Bank
The Country Opinion Survey in Togo assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Togo perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local...
Type: ReportReport#: 197508Date: February 21, 2025Author:
World Bank
The Country Opinion Survey in the Solomon Islands assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in
better understanding how the Solomon Islands stakeholders perceive the WBG. It provides
the WBG with systematic...
Type: ReportReport#: 197462Date: February 20, 2025Author:
World Bank
While 35% of male tertiary graduates in Trinidad and Tobago earn degrees in STEM
programs, the share among women is only 17%. Men are 12 percentage points more likely than
women to have vulnerable work...
Type: BriefReport#: 197488Date: February 20, 2025Author:
World Bank
While 28% of male tertiary
graduates in the Dominican
Republic earn degrees in
STEM programs, the share
among women is only 5%.
Adolescent fertility in
the Dominican Republic
remains among the highest
in...
Type: BriefReport#: 197473Date: February 20, 2025Author:
World Bank
While 25% of male tertiary graduates in Costa Rica earn degrees in STEM programs, the share among women is only 9%. The proportion of men in vulnerable work arrangements is almost 5 percentage points higher...
Type: BriefReport#: 197470Date: February 20, 2025Author:
World Bank
In Guatemala, for every young
man out of employment,
education, or training there
are around 5 young women in
such situation.
Internet access for women
is nearly 20 percentage
points lower than for...
Type: BriefReport#: 197476Date: February 20, 2025Author:
World Bank
While 24% of male tertiary graduates in Argentina earn degrees in STEM programs,
the share among women is only 11%; Although declining, teenage pregnancy continues to be
higher than the average for countries...
Type: BriefReport#: 197463Date: February 20, 2025Author:
World Bank
In Suriname, for every
young man out of
employment, education, or
training, there are 1.5 young
women in such situation.
Women represent just 42%
of total senior and middle
management positions.
Boys...
Type: BriefReport#: 197487Date: February 20, 2025Author:
World Bank
Although slowly declining, Jamaica’s adolescent fertility
rate is higher than the average for upper-middle
income countries. 7% of women have
experienced physical and/or sexual intimate partner
violence...
Type: BriefReport#: 197472Date: February 20, 2025Author:
World Bank
While 26% of male tertiary
graduates in Honduras earn
degrees in STEM programs, the
share among women is only 9%.
Although slowly declining,
adolescent fertility in
Honduras remains among
the highest...
Type: BriefReport#: 197478Date: February 20, 2025Author:
World Bank
Adolescent fertility in Panama
is 6 times higher than the
average for countries in the
same income group.
While 22.6% of male tertiary
graduates earn degrees in
STEM programs, the share
among women...
Type: BriefReport#: 197483Date: February 20, 2025Author:
World Bank
Zambia is simultaneously amongst the poorest and the most unequal countries in the world. In 2022, 64.3 percent of the population - about 12.6 million individuals - was living on less than US$2.15 a day....
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 197380Date: February 20, 2025Author:
World Bank
For every young man who is not working, studying, or in training,
there are 1.4 young women facing the same situation.
Women are 22 percentage points less likely than
men to be working or searching for...
Type: BriefReport#: 197477Date: February 20, 2025Author:
World Bank
While 36% of male tertiary
graduates in Mexico earn
degrees in STEM programs,
the share among women is
only 14%.
Women spend more than
twice the time on unpaid
domestic and care work
daily than...
Type: BriefReport#: 197481Date: February 20, 2025Author:
World Bank
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