Tag: labour markets
One step forward, two steps back? Why WDR 2019 harms the World Bank’s role as a thought leader on employment and gender equality
Guest post on the new World Development Report by Shahra Razavi (left) and Silke Staab of the UN Women Research and Data Section. (The views expressed here are in their individual capacities and do not reflect the position of UN Women). Diego Rivera’s 1931 mural, The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City, […]
Read More »What do we know about ‘online gig work’ in developing countries?
What do we know about ‘online gig work’ in developing countries? Until recently, all I’d read about was the bizarre world of gold farming – gamers in East Asia (even prisoners in Chinese labour camps) playing to accumulate credits they could then sell on to lazy Western players. A new report from the Oxford Internet […]
Read More »Is China finally running out of workers?
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Getting women into paid employment has more impact on poverty than formalizing women's work or equalizing wage rates – findings from Latin America
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