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Book Chapter
The role of gender in the extractive industries

Part of Book Extractive Industries

  • Extractive industries
  • Gender equality
  • Sustainable development
Blog
Celebrating gender diversity and leading with impact
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by Mamiky Leolo August 2023

In celebration of South Africa's Women's Month, SA-TIED is spotlighting the women driving change within the field of economics. Through the ‘Breaking...

  • Gender equality
Blog
Georgina Ryan – paving the path in economic policy and inclusivity
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by Georgina Ryan August 2023

As part of the SA-TIED ‘Breaking Barriers, Building Economies: Women in Economic Policy' initiative, Georgina Ryan emerges as a visionary force...

  • Gender equality
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Driving change: Nadine Riedel on economics and gender equality
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by Nadine Riedel August 2023

In celebration of South Africa's Women's Month, SA-TIED is spotlighting exceptional women with the 'Breaking Barriers, Building Economies: Women in...

  • Gender equality
  • Gender
Blog
Contributing to gender inclusivity: A glimpse into Pumla Bam's journey
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by Pumla Bam August 2023

In celebration of South Africa's Women's Month, SA-TIED is spotlighting women driving change in economics. Through the 'Breaking Barriers, Building...

  • Gender equality
  • Gender
Factsheet
The quantity and quality of women’s work
  • SDG5
  • Gender equality
  • Women's work
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...

  • Social mobility
  • Poverty
  • Inequality
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...

  • Social protection
  • Tanzania
  • Women
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A summer reading list of our latest papers, articles, and books
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by Timothy Shipp July 2021

At the UNU-WIDER offices here in Helsinki, Finland, the summer holidays are almost upon us. Looking at the list of new UNU-WIDER publications, it is...

  • Inequality
  • Gender equality
  • Gender inequality
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A fiercely contested omission — or why we need to keep talking about unpaid care
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by Naila Kabeer March 2022

In the late 1950s, the United Nations System of National Accounts was set up to promote the collection of internationally comparable data on...

  • Unpaid labour
  • Gender equality
  • Gender inequality
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The COVID-19 crisis, informal workers, and gender — understanding the intersections
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by Martha Chen March 2022

The COVID-19 crisis — the pandemic, restrictions, and recession — has not been a grand leveler. While all of us, rich and poor, faced the fear and...

  • Equality and inequality
  • COVID-19
  • Gender
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Does access to microfinance help or hinder women’s empowerment?
by Niaz Asadullah, Nudrat Faria Shreya, Zaki Wahhaj March 2022

Almost everywhere, women are underrepresented in labour markets compared to men. While labour force participation among women of working age (FLFP)...

  • Gender equality
  • Gender equality; Labour markets
  • Bangladesh
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A macro analysis of gender segregation and job quality in Latin America

Part of Journal Special Issue Women’s Work

  • Gender equality
  • Latin America
  • Macroeconomics
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...

  • Gender equality
  • Latin America
  • Macroeconomics
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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...

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  • Structural transformation
  • Rural development
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