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
Young women in Peru are 6 percentage points more likely than young men to be out of employment, not in education, or in training. Women are 13 percentage
points more likely than men to have vulnerable...
Type: BriefReport#: 197484Date: February 20, 2025Author:
World Bank
Boys in St. Vincent and
the Grenadines are 17
percentage points less likely
than girls to complete lower
secondary education.
Men are 7 percentage
points more likely than
women to have vulnerable...
Type: BriefReport#: 197490Date: February 20, 2025Author:
World Bank
In Bolivia, for every young man out of employment, education, or training there
are 2 young women in such situation. Teenage pregnancy is above the average for the region and for the same income group....
Type: BriefReport#: 197465Date: February 20, 2025Author:
World Bank
Young men in Barbados are 6 percentage points more likely than young women to
be out of employment, not in education, or in training. Men are 13 percentage
points more likely than women to have vulnerable...
Type: BriefReport#: 197467Date: February 20, 2025Author:
World Bank
While 35% of male tertiary graduates in Colombia earn degrees in STEM programs,
the share among women is only 15%. For every young man out of employment, education,
or training there are around 2 young...
Type: BriefReport#: 197469Date: February 20, 2025Author:
World Bank
While 31% of male tertiary
graduates in Ecuador earn
degrees in STEM programs,
the share among women is
only 10%. The share of employed
people with vulnerable work
arrangements in Ecuador is
higher...
Type: BriefReport#: 197474Date: February 20, 2025Author:
World Bank
While 21% of male tertiary graduates in Grenada earn degrees in STEM programs, the share among women is only 12%.Women are 3 percentage points less likely than men to participate in the labor market. If...
Type: BriefReport#: 197475Date: February 20, 2025Author:
World Bank
Although declining, Haiti’s
adolescent fertility rate
remains higher than the
average for lower-middle
income countries.
There is a 5.3 percentage
point gender gap in access
to a financial account...
Type: BriefReport#: 197479Date: February 20, 2025Author:
World Bank
Although slowly declining,
St. Lucia’s adolescent
fertility rate remains higher
than the average for upper
middle-income countries.
Men are 11 percentage
points more likely than
women to be in vulnerable...
Type: BriefReport#: 197480Date: February 20, 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
In Paraguay, for every young man out of employment, education, or training there are almost 3 young women in such situation. Despite improvements toward gender parity in access to accounts, financial inclusion...
Type: BriefReport#: 197485Date: February 20, 2025Author:
World Bank
This paper explores the effect of road rehabilitation on violent conflict using a novel, rich dataset of road rehabilitation projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The country received massive external...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11071Date: February 20, 2025Author:
Mathilde Lebrand ;
Mueller,Hannes ;
Schouten,Peer ;
Jevgenijs Steinbuks
While 29% of male tertiary
graduates in El Salvador earn
degrees in STEM programs,
the share among women is
only 17%.
There is gender gap of
15.6 percentage points
against women in the
share of...
Type: BriefReport#: 197486Date: February 20, 2025Author:
World Bank
While 32% of male tertiary graduates in Belize earn degrees in STEM programs,
the share among women is only 13.5%. Adolescent fertility rate
is more than twice the average rate of countries in the...
Type: BriefReport#: 197464Date: February 20, 2025Author:
World Bank
While 40% of male tertiary graduates in Chile earn degrees in STEM programs,
the share among women is only 7.8%. Women spend more than twice
the time on unpaid domestic and care work as men. Young women...
Type: BriefReport#: 197468Date: February 20, 2025Author:
World Bank
While 29% of male tertiary
graduates in Nicaragua earn
degrees in STEM programs,
the share among women is
only 13%.
Although low in general,
22% of women have
access to a financial
account compared...
Type: BriefReport#: 197482Date: February 20, 2025Author:
World Bank
South Sudan’s extensive renewable natural resources are critically important to its predominantly rural population, which relies on largely subsistence livelihoods and has limited access to the market...
Type: ReportReport#: 196363Date: February 20, 2025Author:
Stephen Ling ;
Ross Hughes ;
Tuukka Castren ;
Katherine Valerie Polkinghorne ;
Michael Vaislic
While 22.5% of male tertiary
graduates in Uruguay earn
degrees in STEM programs,
the share among women is
only 10%.
Although declining,
Uruguay’s adolescent
fertility rate remains
around 3 times...
Type: BriefReport#: 197489Date: February 20, 2025Author:
World Bank
This Mexico Poverty and Equity Assessment reviews the evidence about poverty and equity in Mexico over the last two decades, compares it to comparable international experience, and identifies a set of...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 197455Date: February 20, 2025Author:
World Bank
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