Opening doors : gender equality and development in the Middle East and North Africa (Vol. 1 of 2) : Main report (English)

Since the early 1990s, countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region have made admirable progress in reducing the gap between girls and boys in areas such as access to education and health care. Indeed, almost all young girls in the Region attend school, and more women than men are enrolled in university. Over the past two decades, maternal mortality declined 60 percent, the largest decrease in the world. Women in MENA are more educated...

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Document Date
2013/02/06
Document Type
Publication
Report Number
75181
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
2 (See all volumes)
Country
Middle East and North Africa,
Region
Middle East and North Africa,
Disclosure Date
2013/02/07
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Main report
Keywords
Finance & Private Sector Development

Language

English

Rel. Proj ID

5M-Gender Equality and Development in MENA -- P126939

Major Sector

FY17 - Public Administration

Theme

FY17 - Other Excluded Groups,FY17 - Labor Market Institutions,FY17 - Economic Growth and Planning,FY17 - Fiscal Policy,FY17 - Job Creation,FY17 - Youth Employment,FY17 - Jobs,FY17 - Data Development and Capacity Building,FY17 - Social Safety Nets,FY17 - Social Inclusion,FY17 - Social Protection,FY17 - Labor Market Policy and Programs,FY17 - Data production, accessibility and use,FY17 - Subnational Fiscal Policies,FY17 - Migration, Remittances and Diaspora Engagement

Sector

FY17 - Other Public Administration

Topics

Education,Gender,Gender and Human Development,Jobs,Labor Participation,

Historic Topics

Culture and Development, Education, Gender, Social Protections and Labor,

Historic SubTopics

Anthropology, Educational Sciences, Gender and Development, Gender and Social Development, Labor Markets,

Unit Owning

EFI-PovertyandEquity-GD (EPVDR)

ISBN

978-0-8213-9763-3|978-0-8213-9764-0

Version Type

Final

Series Name

MENA development report;

Digital Object Identifier

10.1596/978-0-8213-9763-3

Product Line

Economic and Sector Work

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Opening doors : gender equality and development in the Middle East and North Africa (Vol. 1 of 2) : Main report (English). MENA development report Washington DC : World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/338381468279877854

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