Working Paper
Social protection for working-age women in Tanzania
Tanzania has expanded its social protection framework significantly over the past decade, but the country continues to grapple with important gender inequalities. This paper examines, first, the evolution and effects of Tanzania’s social protection...
Journal Special Issue
Women’s Work
In recent decades, trends in female labour force participation rates have been very heterogeneous across developing countries, despite widespread economic growth, fertility decline, and narrowing gender gaps in education.However, globally, gender...
Working Paper
A macro–micro analysis of gender segregation and job quality in Latin America
Latin America has seen vast improvements in gender educational and health equality. Favourable supply-side conditions, however, have not translated into greater gender economic equality, a process that also depends on structural economic change and...
Policy Brief
Six sets of policy actions to promote social mobility
Promoting social mobility is an essential task of development, and a multi-faceted one. Precarious livelihoods are widespread. Containing downward mobility is an important precondition for sustaining upward mobility. Policies of human capital...
Working Paper
The role of gender in the extractives industries
In recognizing that women’s participation and gender equity is a precondition for the achievement of acceptable development outcomes, extractives industry companies are increasingly making public commitments to integrating gender equality, inclusion...
Book
Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam (in Vietnamese)
Giới thiệu Việt Nam là một nước đông dân ở khu vực Đông Nam Á với lịch sử lâu đời và đặc trưng về kinh tế, chính trị và xã hội.2 Sau khi kết thúc chiến tranh với Hoa Kỳ năm 1975, Việt Nam đã có những tham vọng lớn về tương lai; song mặc dù có nhiều...
Project meeting
Gender equality theme meeting
This planning meeting is for the project team members, and is by personal invitation only. For more information on this research, please see the research page
Thu, 12 July 2012
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Fri, 13 July 2012
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Lecture
Trade and gender inequality
Invited Guest Lecturer, Malokele Nanivazo, Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. Contact Person: Henna Seinälä, University of Jyväskylä
Mon, 26 November 2012
University of Jyväskylä,
Jyväskylä,
Finland
Past event
Project meeting
Kick-off meeting – Gender and Development project
Wed, 6 May 2015
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Thu, 7 May 2015
UNU-WIDER,
Katajanokanlaituri 6 b,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Book
Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The household survey data used in...
Project workshop
Women's work – Routes to social and economic empowerment
Thu, 19 November 2020
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Thu, 3 December 2020
Virtual,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Presentation
Panel on the ‘Structure and drivers of the quantity and quality of women’s work in Latin America’ at the 29th Annual International Association for Feminist Economics
The UNU-WIDER project on ‘Women’s work — routes to economic and social empowerment’ presents at the 29th IAFFE Annual Conference, held virtually between 22 – 25 June 2021.
Fri, 25 June 2021
Online,
Finland
Past event