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December 02, 2020
A main objective of the compendium is practical: helping readers locate and choose different tools (and indicators) for different purposes. This includes providing a better understanding of the factors that affect country rankings produced by different tools and selecting among tools and indicators ...
Blog Post
November 30, 2020
Did you know that Zimbabwe is one of four low- and lower-middle-income countries (LICs and LMCs) where a severe economic contraction in 2020 combines with very low levels of women’s wellbeing and low capacity of the state to target government payments and other social assistance to women and girls?
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November 17, 2020
The Birdsall House Conference on Women identifies and highlights leading research and scholarly findings on women’s empowerment in the field of development economics. Past conferences have focused on contraception as a tool for economic empowerment, the intersection of early childhood development an...
WORKING PAPERS
October 20, 2020
Evidence on ‘what works’ to promote women’s economic empowerment has expanded in recent years but remains geographically unbalanced, with English speaking countries and those with more longstanding research traditions better represented. Recognizing the importance of context specificity in understan...
Blog Post
June 10, 2020
The DFC has three mandates: (1) deliver development outcomes, (2) support US foreign policy, and (3) don’t lose money by financing only commercially viable projects. DFC’s predecessor agency, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), sometimes struggled to balance these (often conflicting)...
Blog Post
May 27, 2020
We know that the coronavirus pandemic is affecting men and women differently and may exacerbate gender inequalities, and we also know that gender roles will help shape adaptive responses to the pandemic. But do we have the granular information that is needed (on regions, sectors, coverage, and sever...
Blog Post
April 16, 2020
Think tanks are supposed to float new ideas to make government work better. One such crazy idea that started with Ben Leo and me turned into the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC). How did this possibly happen? And what might we learn from this experience?