Did you know that 2022 marks 10 years since the publication of the World Bank Group’s World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development? Over the last decade, progress has been achieved ...

Efforts to achieve gender equality will not only help sub-Saharan Africa revive its inclusive growth engine but also will ensure progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals and help address the ...

Based on the contents of the 2012 World Development Report (WDR) on Gender Equality and Development, and designed to meet the need for "just-in-time" learning and accommodate professional and ...

The work undertaken to bring gender perspectives to bear on national budgets since the mid 1980s has often been rather loosely defined. Initially the initiatives were called "women's budgets"; later ...

Last week Australia released its new international development policy. With Australia situated in a mostly developing neighborhood, the policy is one of the central arms of its regional foreign policy ...

Despite making up nearly half of the country’s population, most women in Nigeria are still excluded from political decision-making, economic opportunities and social privileges. TOBA AGBOOLA reports.

International trade can benefit women, especially in developing economies, but the rewards depend on determined policy action Gender equality is not only a fundamental right but an economic imperative ...

Transformative change toward gender equality requires a concerted effort. This involves further investments, further changes in law and policies, further interventions to shift social and gender norms ...

Gender is a factor in almost every area of development, from economic outcomes to public health. Now that the COVID-19 pandemic has imposed disproportionate costs on women and girls, global efforts to ...

Gender equality is central to the World Bank Group’s goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity in a sustainable manner. No society can develop sustainably without transforming the ...