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Blog Post
February 27, 2023
Strengthening women’s land rights has important policy consequences for poverty reduction and gender equality in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It is an issue that is also in alignment with realizing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of ending all forms of poverty and achieving gender equality ...
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February 21, 2023
Developing and using commonly agreed upon Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) indicators is critical to helping stakeholders understand the outcomes of financial inclusion (FI) on women, how these outcomes are being achieved, and to better identify what works and what does not in promoting women’s ec...
Blog Post
February 16, 2023
Launched in January 2023, the new US Strategy on Global Women’s Economic Security is the first of its kind to apply across federal agencies. Women’s economic security is a critical element of broader gender equality and a foundation for the well-being of households, communities, and countries
POLICY PAPERS
February 10, 2023
Bangladesh’s Primary Education Stipend Program provides stipends for 13 million primary schoolchildren to 10 million mothers. In 2017 the method of payment changed from cash to mobile money. This study considers the experience of the mothers with the shift to mobile money, and to the change in payme...
Blog Post
February 03, 2023
Last year, I went zip lining. It invigorated my sense of how to approach the elusive pursuit of empowerment. Imagine climbing six stories to the top of a platform 65 feet up in the air, connecting yourself to a cable, and then jumping off to go zipping through tree tops at a speed of 35 miles an hou...
Blog Post
January 26, 2023
With the abandonment of its Zero COVID policy, the Chinese economy is expected to rebound and contribute substantively to global economic growth in the latter part of 2023. This is projected to add to world demand for oil, more than offsetting falling demand from advanced countries whose economies a...
Blog Post
January 19, 2023
Kenya has become a poster child for digitally driven development. Known as “Silicon Savannah,” the country has a multi-billion-dollar tech industry that routinely produces startups. Among its most prominent successes is M-Pesa. Launched in 2007, the mobile wallet service revolutionized how Kenyans t...
Blog Post
December 19, 2022
About 63 percent of Nigeria’s population is multidimensionally poor, and Nigeria’s debt service-to-revenue ratio at the federal government level reached 83 percent during the first eight months of 2022. In short, the country is facing significant fiscal-macroeconomic challenges, with implications fo...
CGD NOTES
December 19, 2022
The next administration in Nigeria will face significant fiscal-macroeconomic challenges. This note focuses on adopting a more integrated and comprehensive framework for the conduct of fiscal policy, with emphasis on improving domestic resource mobilization, enhancing expenditure efficiency, and exp...