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  • Are Mobile Savings the Silver Bullet to Help Women Grow Their Businesses? (English)

    In Tanzania and Indonesia, we promoted the expansion of mobile savings accounts among women micro-entrepreneurs and provided them with business related training. In doing so, we simultaneously relaxed...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 130417 Document Date: October 1, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bastian,Gautam Gustav,Bianchi,Iacopo,Buvinic,Mayra Lourdes,Goldstein,Markus P.,Jaluka,Tanvi,Knowles,James C.,Montalvao Machado,Joao H. C.,Kartaadipoetra,Firman Witoelar

  • Promoting women’s economic empowerment : what works? (English)

    A review of rigorous evaluations of interventions that seek to empower women economically shows that the same class of interventions has significantly different outcomes depending on the client. Capital...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 120329 Document Date: January 31, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Buvinic,Mayra Lourdes,Furst Nichols,Rebecca Leigh

  • The World Bank research observer 31 (1) (English)

    The World Bank Research Observer is intended for anyone who has a professional interest in development. Observer articles are written to be accessible to non specialist readers; contributors examine key...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 120331 Document Date: February 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Fink,Carsten,Maskus,Keith E.,Qian,Yi,Bruck,Tilman,Justino,Patricia,Verwimp,Philip,Avdeenko,Alexandra,Tedesco,Andrew Anthony,Buvinic,Mayra Lourdes,Furst Nichols,Rebecca Leigh,Cunningham,Wendy,Villasenor Torres,Paula,Gentilini,Ugo,Lederman,Daniel,Porto,Guido

  • World Bank Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) : mid-term review (English)

    This mid-term review of the World Bank Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) used relevant gender and development and impact evaluation literature, results of two GIL-administered short surveys, and 30 individual...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 105639 Document Date: November 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Buvinic,Mayra Lourdes,Furst Nichols,Rebecca Leigh

  • Promoting women's economic empowerment : what works ? (English)

    A review of rigorous evaluations of interventions that seek to empower women economically shows that the same class of interventions has significantly different outcomes depending on the client. Capital...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS7087 Document Date: November 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Buvinic,Mayra Lourdes,Furst-Nichols, Rebecca

  • The World Bank economic review 28 (2) (English)

    This paper is organized in following headings: economic development as opportunity equalization; the measurement of educational inequality: achievement and opportunity; economic growth and equality of...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 113049 Document Date: January 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Roemer,John E.,Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Gignoux,Jérémie,Peragine,Vito,Palmisano,Flaviana,Brunori,Paolo,Van de gaer,Dirk,Vandenbossche,Joost,Figueroa,José Luis,Buvinic,Mayra Lourdes,Das Gupta,Monica,Shemyakina,Olga N.,Justino,Patricia,Leone,Marinella,Salardi,Paola,Valente,Christine,Verwimp,Philip,Van Bavel,Jan

  • Symposium on conflict and gender : armed conflict, gender, and schooling (English)

    The impact of armed conflict on gender differentials in schooling appears to be highly context-specific, as the review of the literature and the findings from the three studies in this symposium reveal...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 112401 Document Date: October 14, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Buvinic,Mayra Lourdes,Das Gupta,Monica,Shemyakina, Olga N.

  • Violent conflict and gender inequality : an overview (English)

    Violent conflict, a pervasive feature of the recent global landscape, has lasting impacts on human capital, and these impacts are seldom gender neutral. Death and destruction alter the structure and dynamics...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 112498 Document Date: February 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Buvinic,Mayra Lourdes,Das Gupta,Monica,Casabonne,Ursula,Verwimp,Philip

  • Violent conflict and gender inequality : an overview (English)

    Violent conflict, a pervasive feature of the recent global landscape, has lasting impacts on human capital, and these impacts are seldom gender neutral. Death and destruction alter the structure and dynamics...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6371 Document Date: February 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Buvinic,Mayra Lourdes,Das Gupta,Monica,Casabonne,Ursula,Verwimp,Philip

  • How do women weather economic shocks? What we know (English)

    Do women weather economic shocks differently than men? First-round impacts of economic crises on women's employment should be more prominent in this recent economic downturn than historically because of...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 59109 Document Date: January 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Sabarwal,Shwetlena,Sinha,Nistha,Buvinic,Mayra Lourdes

  • How do women weather economic shocks ? a review of the evidence (English)

    Do women weather economic shocks differently than men? The evidence shows this to be the case, especially in low-income countries. The first-round impacts of economic crises on women's employment should...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5496 Document Date: December 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Buvinic,Mayra Lourdes,Sabarwal,Shwetlena,Sinha,Nistha

  • Investing in gender equality : looking ahead (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 55743 Document Date: July 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Buvinic,Mayra Lourdes,Lunde,Trine,Sinha,Nistha

  • Empowering girls and women in South Sudan : report from the field (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 81689 Document Date: June 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Buvinic,Mayra Lourdes,Lunde,Trine

  • Gender, poverty, and demography : an overview (English)

    Much has been written on gender inequality and how it affects fertility and mortality outcomes as well as economic outcomes. What is not well understood is the role of gender inequality, embedded in the...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 77627 Document Date: November 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Buvinic,Mayra Lourdes,Das Gupta,Monica,Casabonne,Ursula

  • The World Bank economic review 23 (3) (English)

    This issue includes the following: gender, poverty and demography: an overview, by Mayra Buvinic, Monica Das Gupta, and Ursula Casabonne; Development, modernization, and childbearing: the role of family...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 62999 Document Date: November 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Buvinic,Mayra Lourdes,Casabonne,Ursula,Das Gupta,Monica,Ebenstein,Avraham Yehuda,Filmer,Deon P.,Friedman,Jed,Gasmi,Farid,Glinskaya,Elena E.,Lokshin,Michael M.,Schady,Norbert Rudiger,Schultz,Theodoro Paul,Sharygin, Ethan Jennings,Sirimaneetham,Vatcharin,Temple,Jonathan Richard William,Noumba Um,Paul,Virto, Laura Recuero

  • Equality for women : where do we stand on millennium development goal 3? (English)

    There is compelling evidence of the importance of gender equality for poverty reduction and sustainable growth. So it should come as no surprise that most development actors-international agencies, bilateral...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 45773 Document Date: September 18, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Buvinic,Mayra Lourdes,Morrison,Andrew R.,Ofosu-Amaah,Adyline Waafas,Sjoblom,Mirja Channa

  • Social development in Latin America : issues for public policy (English)

    Since the Social Development Summit in Copenhagen in 1995, there has been a progressive search for mechanisms to incorporate the social dimension systematically in the development agenda. Three core themes...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 33963 Document Date: January 1, 2003 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Buvinic,Mayra Lourdes,Fernandez Franco,Emiliano Rolando,GORDON, SARAH,Gutierrez-Espeleta, Edgar E.,Morrison,Andrew R.,Orlando,Maria Beatriz,Juan Pablo,Perez Sainz,Rodriguez,Ernesto,Sojo, Carlos [editor],Strasser, Carlos