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  • Gender-based violence prevention : lessons from World Bank impact evaluations (English)

    Gender-based violence (GBV) is widespread, with adverse repercussions for individual wellbeing and development more broadly. Yet, knowledge on what works to prevent GBV is limited. Drawing on lessons from...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 87854 Document Date: April 30, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kiplesund,Sveinung,Morton,Matthew H.

  • Gender at work : a companion to the world development report on jobs (English)

    Gender inequality is a major part of the global jobs challenge. Appropriate responses require leveling the playing field and creating the types of jobs that can empower women. Gender inequality in the...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 89273 Document Date: February 20, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hanmer,Lucia C.,Klugman,Jeni,Morton,Matthew H.,Singer,Dorothe

  • Interventions to prevent or reduce violence against women and girls : a systematic review of reviews (English)

    Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) is a pervasive global problem. It is a violation of basic human rights and a drag on development. Much of the research to-date on the topic-including a major recent...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 92713 Document Date: January 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Arango,Diana Jimena,Ellsberg,Mary Carroll,Gennari,Floriza Freire,Kiplesund,Sveinung,Morton,Matthew H.

  • The World Bank legal review, volume 5 : fostering development through opportunity, inclusion, and equity (English)

    This is the fifth edition of The World Bank Legal Review, which highlights the breadth of reach of the rule of law and, most critically, its centrality to development. This volume is made up of 32 chapters...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 82558 Document Date: January 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Abdelhady, Hdeel,Alterman,Rachelle,Balakrishnan,Pulapre,Bo,Giovanni,Boraine,Andre,Boudry,Charles E.,Burke-Shyne, Naomi,Chern,Cyril,Cisse, Hassane [editor],Correa, Fabiano de Andrade,Dokeniya,Anupama,Eliasson, Jan,Fariello,Frank Anthony,Fernandes,Edesio,Fraser, Sean,Gadio, Kalidou,Garrido,Jose M.,Gehring, Markus W.,Glasser,Matthew D.,Hoffman,Beth Anne,Iyi, John-Mark,Joseph, Nicholas,Kibugi, Robert,Klugman,Jeni,Leroy,Anne-Marie,Loris, William T.,Mcinerney-Lankford,Siobhan,Menon, N. R. Madhava [editor],Milovanovitch, Mihaylo,Morton,Matthew H.,Mulumba, Moses,Nmehielle, Vincent O. [editor],Panchu, Sriram,Patterson,David H.,Pearson De Gonzalez,Annette E.,Prettitore,Paul Scott,Rastogi, Avni,Roestoff, Melanie,Saito, Yolanda,Segger, Marie-Claire Cordonier [editor],Slattery, Elisa,Sulser,Patricia Odette,Varela,David F.,Viano,Emilio Cesare

  • Engaging men and boys in advancing women's agency : where we stand and new directions (English)

    Despite advances in gender equality, women and girls still face disadvantages and limits on their agency. Men and boys can be key stakeholders and allies to increase women's agency. This paper focuses...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 82534 Document Date: November 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Fleming,Paul Joseph,Barker,Gary,Mccleary-Sills,Jennifer Diane,Morton,Matthew H.