Using phone survey data collected in Belize, Dominica, Haiti, and Saint Lucia in 2021, this note presents recent evidence on natural disaster risk exposure and preparedness at the household and community...
Grenada is a small upper-middle-income Caribbean Island with a young population, prone to natural disasters but also with an economy that is highly dependent on tourism. This policy note seeks to identify...
Natural disasters catalyze gender-differentiated effects. Women and girls are disproportionally impacted because of inequalities in access to endowments, economic opportunities, and agency. The objective...
Natural disasters have gender-differentiated effects. Women and girls are disproportionally impacted due to existing inequalities in access to endowments, economic opportunities, and agency. The objective...
This paper examines the influence of gender inequality on poverty among Syrian refugees in Jordan between 2013 and 2018. Two waves of Home-Visit surveys, collected by the United Nations High Commissioner...
En América Latina y el Caribe, la pandemia sigue teniendo efectos pronunciados en el mercado laboral, especialmente para las mujeres. Los datos de encuestas telefónicas de alta frecuencia muestran que...
In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), the effects of the pandemic on labor market outcomes continue to be pronounced, especially for women. Continued pronounced impacts on women’s employment are partly...
The report focuses on sectoral choice as one of the contributors to the gender gap in firm performance. It explores the difference in profits among female entrepreneurs who cross over into male-dominated...
St. Kitts has made progress in terms of health outcomes over the past decades. Domestic violence is the most common form of gender-based violence which predominantly affects women and girls. The measures...
While recent data to assess Guyana’s performance on achieving gender equality is scarce, the existing evidence highlights key shortcomings across all dimensions, with reproductive and health service indicators...
Although Chile has experienced robust economic growth and made progress in narrowing gender gaps during the last decades, gender disparities persist, especially in access to economic opportunities. Moreover...
Argentina’s progress towards gender equality remains imbalanced: women have advantage in human endowment, but still lag in economic participation and voice and agency. Unequal access to economic opportunities...
The country has made major progress in gender equality since the beginning of the century. The government has taken concrete steps to enact policies that address gender inequality, adopting a strong legal...
Jamaica has made significant strides towards gender equality in the last two decades. Despite improvements in educational attainment, Jamaican women do not have the same access to economic opportunities...
When looking at human endowments, Honduras has a mixed performance in women’s health outcomes and a poor performance in education. Gender gaps in labor market outcomes are wide, despite recent improvements...
Trinidad and Tobago have made terms of health outcomes over the past two decades. A recent gender analysis conducted by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago and United Nations Development Program (UNDP)...
Grenada has made important progress towards gender equality over the past two decades in different aspects. However, the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic evidenced that female employment is...
When looking at human endowments, El Salvador performs relatively well in terms of women’s health outcomes, but gender gaps remain in education. In terms of economic opportunities, gender gaps in labor...
Although Belize scores comparatively well on the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) economic participation sub-index, the gender assessment highlighted that employment rates among men strongly exceeded those...
In 2021, Suriname climbed from rank 77 to 51 on the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Gender Gap Index, making it one of the three countries that most reduced its gender gap in LAC. A recent report by...