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May 09, 2024
As many countries around the world prepare to celebrate Mothers’ Day weekend, including in the United States, care is at the top of many people’s minds. This theme resonates from intimate household spaces to the broad corridors of global policy. The G20 is one global policy space where, each year, i...
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April 17, 2024
In the wake of COVID and amidst global crises, care has increasingly become recognized as a global issue critical for sustainable development and gender equality. Yet, there are still massive gaps in care policies, services, and financing, and there is much more work that needs to happen to ensure u...
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March 12, 2024
There is no way that poverty can be fully tackled without policies designed to address the multiple disadvantages faced by people due to the combination of ascribed attributes including gender, age, race, ethnicity, disability, migration status, and sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI). And...
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December 06, 2023
Men are the majority customers in bank lending portfolios throughout the world. The gender gap in access to credit is larger in developing countries and especially onerous for women entrepreneurs who suffered disproportionate employment and income losses during the recent COVID pandemic. What drives...
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November 30, 2023
The latest climate COP, or “Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,” got underway today in Dubai. It will be attended by thousands of delegates from governments, the private sector, media, and civil society, with two hectic weeks of events and negotiat...
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November 28, 2023
Recent news that developed countries may finally have delivered on their promise to mobilise $100 billion of climate finance is welcome. But it is nowhere near enough to meet the aims of the Paris Agreement, and climate finance will continue to be an extremely contentious issue at COP28 in Dubai. So...