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Blog Post
January 22, 2024
At the World Bank-IMF Annual Meetings last fall in Marrakesh, the Bank governors endorsed innovative financial instruments to boost lending at the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)—the Bank’s arm that lends to creditworthy countries. Some donor countries have signaled thei...
Blog Post
November 29, 2023
At the Annual Meetings of the World Bank and IMF in Marrakech in October, the governors of the World Bank agreed upon next steps in the Bank’s “Evolution Roadmap.” The level of ambition is still high, but big reform is far from a done deal. Looking to the past, there has been no shortage of World Ba...
Blog Post
October 10, 2023
One burning question is if the World Bank - together with the regional development banks - will use their potential in decarbonising the world economy. The first step in barricading the gates of hell has to be decarbonising the energy sector. It contributes the most to global greenhouse gas emission...
Blog Post
December 02, 2019
Disagreement exists over the usefulness of the concept of headship in household surveys, and of the use of female headship in the analysis of poverty. Some researchers even argue for getting rid of the headship concept altogether and for organizing the household roster instead around a chosen &ldquo...
Blog Post
October 01, 2019
IFPRI's Agnes Quisumbing and CGD's Dominique van de Walle joined me to discuss the contexts in which headship is (and isn't) useful, the importance of the circumstances leading to female headship, and how headship can relate to women's property rights and financial security.
Sep
25
2019
1:15—3:30 PM
September 10, 2019
Household surveys typically identify a head of household and disaggregate this information by sex. Female headship is both commonly used and heavily criticized as a proxy measure for women’s poverty. Many use it as the only available gauge for women’s well-being; others recommend doing a...