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Nov
29
2023
HYBRID
Washington, DC
9:00—2:00 PM ET / 14:00—18:45 GMT
October 25, 2023
Join us for this year's 9th Annual Birdsall House Conference on Gender Equality, where we will shine a spotlight on the theme, "Women on the Rise: Breaking Barriers in International Financial Institutions." This conference promises to be a thought-provoking exploration of the challenges women face, ...
Blog Post
August 17, 2023
Women’s economic equality remains elusive in countries at every level of income. Women earn less than men. They participate in the labor force at lower rates—and when in the labor force, they have higher unemployment rates. They are overrepresented in low paying jobs and underrepresented in leadersh...
Blog Post
November 21, 2022
In Brazil, the number of children in daycare programs is increasing rapidly. Studies show that publicly provided daycare can benefit children’s nutrition and yield short-term benefits to children’s cognitive development, without having adverse impacts on children’s behavioral development. It can als...
Sep
10
2020
9:00—10:30 AM EDT
August 31, 2020
As evidence mounts of the scale of benefits from empowering women as entrepreneurs, managers, workers, and consumers, many development finance institutions (DFIs) are increasing their focus on gender equity in their investment strategies and internal administration. With the first ever Gender Equity...
Blog Post
April 08, 2019
There is no more urgent and fundamental problem in development than finding effective ways to help the ultra-poor improve their economic and social condition. But most interventions don’t reach the poorest of the poor. A stellar panel cohosted by CGD and Women for Women Internat...
Blog Post
March 15, 2019
What if the programs that help the girls the most are not the programs that target girls? Imagine two hypothetical programs. One is targeted towards girls, and it finds a big impact on girls’ learning. It even finds some impacts for boys, although those are much smaller. The other program is a...
Mar
19
2019
9:30—11:00 AM
March 05, 2019
How can interventions best address the needs of the world’s poorest women? Evidence suggests that bundled services offer a viable pathway out of poverty. The graduation approach combines elements of social protection, livelihood development, and access to finance to move highly vulnerable hous...
Blog Post
January 24, 2018
Modern contraception may be the single most important technology for development—it liberates women to think ahead, as men have always been able to do. Last month, CGD hosted the Third Annual Birdsall House Conference on Women: “Reproductive Choices to Life Chances: New and Existing Evid...