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WORKING PAPERS
May 17, 2023
We evaluate two labor market interventions targeting young women in Nairobi, Kenya. The first was a multifaceted program involving vocational training, in-kind transfers of physical capital, and ongoing mentoring. The second was an unrestricted cash grant. Both interventions shift women into self-em...
Blog Post
May 17, 2023
Youth unemployment is a massive problem in many African countries, where the formal sector is small and the population is still expanding rapidly. Relative to young people in other parts of the world, African youth entering the labor force are more likely to be forced to take unpaid jobs to gain exp...
CGD NOTES
March 08, 2023
Evidence suggests that women who use financial services have increased opportunities to earn income and exercise agency by accessing jobs, starting businesses, and gaining intra-household bargaining power. While financial inclusion experts and agents have begun to apply women’s economic empowerment ...
Mar
16
2023
1:00—2:00 PM Eastern US Time Center for Global Development Office
March 03, 2023
Under the current leadership of the G7 (Japan), G20 (India), and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (United States), women’s economic empowerment is a common theme. For the agenda to move forward, rethinking how to foster policies and systems that allow women to work, care, and take full and equa...
Blog Post
March 02, 2023
Since taking office, the Biden-Harris administration has introduced and started to implement a suite of new policies and strategies to advance global gender equality and ensure the enabling conditions for women to exercise voice and agency in their homes, workplaces, communities, and public life.
Mar
15
2023
10:00—11:00 AM ET | 3:00 - 4:00 GMT
March 01, 2023
There is overwhelming evidence on the benefits of women’s land ownership for their own economic outcomes, as well as those of their wider communities and countries. Yet governments in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remain reluctant to either establish or proactively enforce laws that accord women equal ri...
Blog Post
February 27, 2023
Strengthening women’s land rights has important policy consequences for poverty reduction and gender equality in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It is an issue that is also in alignment with realizing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of ending all forms of poverty and achieving gender equality ...
Mar
9
2023
VIRTUAL
11:00—12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
February 21, 2023
Developing and using commonly agreed upon Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) indicators is critical to helping stakeholders understand the outcomes of financial inclusion (FI) on women, how these outcomes are being achieved, and to better identify what works and what does not in promoting women’s ec...
Blog Post
February 16, 2023
Launched in January 2023, the new US Strategy on Global Women’s Economic Security is the first of its kind to apply across federal agencies. Women’s economic security is a critical element of broader gender equality and a foundation for the well-being of households, communities, and countries