The government of the United Republic of Tanzania (Tanzania) has a decades-long history in welcoming and assisting large numbers of refugees, including recent influxes from Burundi and the Democratic Republic...
The brief summarizes the impact of access to free childcare on women's labor market outcomes: evidence from a randomized trial in low-income neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro. The lottery for selection into...
The financial crisis of 2008-09 has highlighted the need for greater attention to gender, both to address the vulnerability of countries to global shocks and to reach growth and poverty reduction goals...
The scant available data authors have (from the 2006 Sudan household health survey and anecdotal updates) conveys the dire situation of girls and women in South Sudan. South Sudan is one of the six countries...
A main goal of this study is to determine the variables responsible for the lower formality of women-owned businesses. The companion study (the World Bank 2007a) shows that Bolivia's informal sector is...
This paper examines the extent to which social networks among indigenous peoples have a significant effect on a variety of human capital investment and economic activities, such as school attendance and...
Despite significant changes in poverty overall in Latin America, the proportion of indigenous peoples living in poverty did not change much from the early 1990s to the present. While earlier work focused...