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CGD NOTE
July 31, 2025
In 2014, G20 leaders committed to reducing the gender labor force participation gap by 25 percent by 2025 to boost global growth and reduce inequality, leading to a decade of policy efforts across countries. As the target year approaches, only nine G20 countries have met the specific reduction goal,...
CGD NOTE
July 09, 2025
It is reasonable to argue that the IDA results measurement framework needed reform when donors negotiated IDA21. By IDA20, the framework lacked cohesion and included more than 1,000 programmatic funding targets, only a few of which had corresponding indicators showing any connection between inputs (...
CGD NOTE
June 13, 2025
Early marriage remains common in many parts of the world and is linked to negative outcomes for women and their children, especially among girls from poor households. While economic insecurity and social norms often drive families to prioritize early marriage over continued education, evidence shows...
WORKING PAPER
May 22, 2025
In many parts of the world, women’s land rights remain informal, leaving widows—especially those without a male heir—at high risk of losing access to their land and homes when their husbands die. We study whether large-scale land formalization programs can improve widows’ tenure security, using data...
BRIEF
December 22, 2020
Always considering gender is smart foreign policy. Globally, gender plays a significant role in determining the barriers people face and the opportunities they have available to them—including their access to economic opportunities and leadership positions, or protection from violence or climate cha...
CGD NOTE
December 07, 2020
This year, the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence comes at a time when there is unprecedented global attention on violence against women and children (VAW/C). The theme of “Fund, Respond, Prevent and Collect!” puts a focus on the need for increased financing to support survivors and p...
