ILO Code of Practice on safety and health in agriculture beneficial for women
Experts representing workers, employers and governments, meeting at the International Labour Organization (ILO), have adopted a new draft Code of Practice on Safety and Health in Agriculture designed...
View ArticleWorld Bank: more action on gender inequality needed
The World Bank is calling on governments to address gender inequality as part of their socio-economic policies. The bank’s director of poverty reduction and economic management, Ana Revenga, told a...
View ArticleGender Equality – THE cross-cutting issue for development
The World Bank tackles the goal of bringing a gender perspective to the analysis and design of development policies. Development objectives like reducing poverty and hunger, improving children’s access...
View ArticleEmpowering women by microfinance!?
Against the background of an increasing feminization of poverty in the developing world, microfinance programs represent important means for promoting women’s empowerment. However, most of these...
View ArticleGender Equality : Progress and Challenges worldwide
In its latest World Development Report released in September 2011, the World Bank recognises again that gender equality is smart economics – and that it matters for development. Image source:...
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