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Toward gender equality in East Asia and the Pacific.
Van Pelt Library HQ1236.5.A78 T69 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- World Bank East Asia and Pacific regional report
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women's rights--Asia.
- Women's rights.
- Women's rights--Pacific Area.
- Women in development--Asia.
- Women in development.
- Sex discrimination against women.
- Asia.
- Women in development--Pacific Area.
- Sex discrimination against women--Asia.
- Sex discrimination against women--Pacific Area.
- Pacific Area.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 248 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : World Bank, [2012]
- Summary:
- "Examines the relationship between gender equality and development and outlines an agenda for public action to promote more effective and inclusive development in East Asian and Pacific countries. Written as a companion to the World Development Report 2012 on gender equality and development, the report finds that promoting gender equality contributes to higher productivity, income growth, and poverty reduction; improves the opportunities and outcomes for the next generation; and enhances the quality of development policymaking. It contributes to the understanding of gender and development policymaking in several important ways. First, the report presents new data and evidence that significantly strengthen the empirical basis for policymaking on gender and development in the region. Second, the report provides new analysis of the gender dimensions and policy implications of several global trends that are particularly important in the region, including increasing economic integration, rapid adoption of new information and communication technologies, rising domestic and international migration flows, rapid urbanization, and population aging"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The state of gender equality in East Asia and the Pacific
- Gender and endowments : access to human capital and productive assets
- Gender and economic opportunity
- Agency : strength of voice and influence
- Gender and the region's emerging development challenges
- Promoting gender equality in East Asia and the Pacific : directions for policy.
- Notes:
- "A companion to the World development report."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780821396230
- 0821396234
- 9780821396261
- 0821396269
- OCLC:
- 794367338
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