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POLICY PAPERS
May 11, 2023
The COVID pandemic has had differential effects by gender, with women experiencing higher job and income loss, increased rates of domestic violence, and mounting care burdens. We examine the extent to which MDB COVID response projects incorporated gender elements and highlight the gaps in those effo...
May
10
2023
9:00—10:15 AM ET / 2:00-3:15 p.m. BST
April 24, 2023
For most of human existence, space has been unreachable and mysterious. Today, however, satellites are launched into space about every three days- underpinning telecommunications, utilities, financial institutions, and other elements of global daily life. Satellites also offer the potential to accel...
Blog Post
April 10, 2023
Among IDA’s key substantive priorities is gender and development—which sits alongside human capital; fragility, conflict, and violence; jobs and economic transformation; and climate change as an overarching special theme. But despite IDA’s inclusion of gender equality as a theme beginning in 2016, i...
REPORTS
March 29, 2023
The Handbook for Space Capability Development is an inclusive, pragmatic, and open-access resource focused on “foundational space capability” development. Its intended audience is the planner or planning team charged with drafting a national space strategy and building a national space program. Amon...
Blog Post
March 29, 2023
Space is almost too glamorous for its own good. This is understandable; for most of human existence, the nighttime sky has been unreachable, mysterious, yet strangely helpful (especially to those navigating or measuring time by the stars). Like the first ships to cross an ocean, early satellites wer...
CGD NOTES
March 08, 2023
Evidence suggests that women who use financial services have increased opportunities to earn income and exercise agency by accessing jobs, starting businesses, and gaining intra-household bargaining power. While financial inclusion experts and agents have begun to apply women’s economic empowerment ...
Mar
16
2023
1:00—2:00 PM Eastern US Time Center for Global Development Office
March 03, 2023
Under the current leadership of the G7 (Japan), G20 (India), and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (United States), women’s economic empowerment is a common theme. For the agenda to move forward, rethinking how to foster policies and systems that allow women to work, care, and take full and equa...