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Women's work - routes to economic and social empowerment
Theme: Current programme
Women's economic empowerment Female labour force participation Gender equalityBook Chapter
The role of gender in the extractive industriesFrom the book: Extractive Industries
extractives industry Gender equality Sustainable developmentBlog
Tackling gender inequality from all directions
Improving the position of women continues to be an important concern in development...
Gender equality Development aid InterventionsWorking Paper
The role of gender in the extractives industriesIn 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, incl...
extractives industry Gender equality Sustainable developmentBook
Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam (in Vietnamese): A Rising Dragon on the MoveGiới 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...
Growth Structural transformation Rural developmentBook Chapter
Rural transformation: a commune-level analysisFrom the book: Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam
Growth Structural transformation Rural developmentBook Chapter
Characteristics of the VARHS data and other data sourcesFrom the book: Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam
Growth Structural transformation Rural developmentBook
Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam: A Rising Dragon on the MoveThis 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...
Growth Structural transformation Rural developmentIn the media
Research Fellow Smriti Sharma’s article on gender equality in India picked upAn article on gender equality in India written by UNU-WIDER’s Smriti Sharma is getting international attention. The piece, originally published in The Conversation , has been picked up by the US edition of The Huffington Post — pointing...
Gender equality IndiaNews
Caren Grown of the World Bank on gender equality and past work at UNU-WIDERWorld Bank Senior Director Caren Grown spoke about women’s empowerment and the World Bank Group’s gender strategy at a discussion event on 28 October, organized by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. In her presentation, she...
Gender equalityProject workshop
Contemporary issues in gender and development
In the media
Girls’ school enrollment decreases in conflict – UNU-WIDER study gets attention in Indian newsThe co-author of a recent UNU-WIDER study, Prakash Singh, has published a column in India’s news site, the Hindu Business Line. In the article, he discusses some of the challenges faced by girls and women in India and the vital role of...
Education Gender equalityVideo
Amartya Sen: Feminism is an issue of humanity“I think gender inequality is not the natural human condition. But the idea that somehow women have to be in an inferior position – or not quite such dominant position – is really wholly artificial for me” says Amartya Sen...
Gender equality Feminism Economic inequalityProject meeting
Kick-off meeting – Gender and Development project
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Lessons from ReCom in a post-2015 perspectiveReCom (Research and Communication on Foreign Aid) occupied a key role in UNU-WIDER’s 2010-13 work programme addressing the triple crisis: Finance, Food and Climate Change. Some 240 ReCom studies were prepared during a period of 3-years by...