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In an effort to drive policy change and support global coordination efforts on the care economy, a new Global Roadmap for Action on the Care Economy (GRAC) has been developed by Center for Global Development, The Asia Foundation, CIPPEC, Women Deliver, and the International Center for Research on Wo...

The Companies Act (2013) implemented in 2015 marked a turning point for the presence of women directors in corporate India. In just a year after the Act was implemented, the percentage of listed firms without women on boards dropped from 53 percent to under 10 percent, highlighting the policy's imme...

India is among the worst countries in the world on the World Economic Forum’s gender gap index, ranking 129th in 2024. Representation of girls and women in textbooks is a natural complement to ongoing successful efforts to increase gender parity in schools. This blog analysis gender bias in textbook...

The World Bank’s recently released 2024-2030 Gender Strategy offers an unequivocal commitment to expanding jobs and advancing women’s participation in decision-making. Yet how well does the World Bank uphold these principles in its own organizational hiring, promotion, and managerial practices? Per...

A look at the conditions which enable women’s leadership by contrasting Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), a region that is ahead of most in women’s presence in politics, with Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) that is currently some steps behind.

For the past 35 years, the World Bank has hosted the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics, or ABCDE, showcasing internal and external research relevant to the Bank’s mission of a world free of poverty. This year, on July 9 and 10, CGD co-hosted the conference together with the World Bank.

Gender data is needed to gauge the extent to which financial services include and benefit women. However, sex-disaggregated data that tracks access to and use of financial services is still hard to come by, and it is especially rare to have country-level data that captures the universe of financial ...

In our piece earlier this year about how and when policymakers engage with research, Janeen Madan Keller, Erin Collinson, and I made a point in passing that attracted some attention: evidence uptake in organizations is relational. What we meant was that, for the most part, policymakers don’t make de...