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
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 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
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
While 28% of male tertiary graduates in Brazil earn
degrees in STEM programs, the share among women is
only 9%. Young women are 10 percentage points more
likely than young men to be out of employment,...
Type: BriefReport#: 197466Date: February 20, 2025Author:
World Bank
Women in Dominica are
16 percentage points less
likely than men to have
formal employment, and
more likely to work for no
wages or lower wages.
There are 7 times more
reported cases of gender
based...
Type: BriefReport#: 197471Date: 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. This...
Type: ReportReport#: 197380Date: February 19, 2025Author:
World Bank
This paper estimates the effect of electricity prices on firm performance, focusing on firm productivity, sales, and employment. Using the World Bank Business Pulse Survey data for a sample of 24 emerging...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11069Date: February 19, 2025Author:
Reyes Aterido ;
Mariana Iootty ;
Martin Melecky
Using data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys from 2006 to 2023, this paper studies the corporate ethical standards of technological digital oriented firms. The findings indicate that technology and...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11068Date: February 19, 2025Author:
Carboni,Marika ;
Degl’Innocenti,Marta ;
Fiordelisi,Franco ;
Davide Salvatore Mare
Women constitute nearly half of the young working age-population in Nepal but are less likely than men to participate in the labor force. When employed, they work largely in informal, or subsistence work...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 197453Date: February 19, 2025Author:
Ambika Sharma ;
Himanshi Jain
Diarrhea and growth faltering in early childhood reduce survival and impair neurodevelopment. This paper assesses whether a national program in the Democratic Republic of Congo reduced diarrhea and stunting...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11070Date: February 19, 2025Author:
Quattrochi, John P ;
Croke,Kevin ;
Caleb Jeremie Dohou ;
Luca Stanus Ghib ;
Yannick Bokasola Lokaya ;
Aidan Coville ;
Mvukiyehe,Eric
This evaluation assesses the World Bank Group’s contributions to supporting electricity access in Sub-Saharan Africa during 2015–24. Electricity access is an end user’s ability to use an energy supply...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 197336Date: February 19, 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. This...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 197380Date: February 18, 2025Author:
World Bank
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