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Oct
5
2021
8:30—10:00 AM Washington DC Time
September 24, 2021
Africa’s informal sector continues to expand, employing a large part of the growing workforce. At the same time, the small and very small businesses have daunting challenges in accessing financing and thus are vulnerable to small changes in the business environment. Without financing, their scale of...
Sep
28
2021
9:30—11:00 AM Washington DC Time
September 21, 2021
What is the impact of IMF-supported programs on growth? Does the Fund lean too heavily towards austerity to ensure external adjustment at the expense of growth? The latest report from the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) examined how IMF-supported programs...
Blog Post
August 11, 2021
The rhetoric around women’s economic empowerment (WEE) in global development is finally being translated into action. Development organizations are using this objective to guide operations and exploring ways to measure impact by integrating WEE indicators into project results frameworks.
Blog Post
July 20, 2021
Earlier this month, nearly 50,000 people from civil society organizations, governments, and corporations convened in Paris for the Generation Equality Forum to define and announce bold commitments to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment across the globe. This mostly virtual forum culminat...
Blog Post
July 15, 2021
In a recent joint piece, African and European leaders underscored the importance of strengthening the positions and roles of pan-African institutions within a new international financial architecture, reaffirming one of the four key goals of the summit on financing African economies held last May in...
WORKING PAPERS
June 22, 2021
This paper makes the case that some interventions designed to improve women’s economic lives need to be tracked long enough for women to manifest new and beneficial behaviors. The study analyzes the time paths of the estimated impacts in a randomized trial providing financial incentives to bank agen...
Blog Post
May 28, 2021
Good stories amid the devastation brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic are both rare and important to document. So when I heard from colleagues at Technoserve in Mozambique about a success story involving young urban women neither at school nor in the workforce, and therefore highly vulnerab...
WORKING PAPERS
April 07, 2021
When health crises like COVID-19 emerge, the shocks to economic, social, and health systems can have different implications for women and girls, with gendered impacts across various dimensions of wellbeing. This paper, part of a series documenting the gendered impacts of the pandemic, focuses on wom...