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South Asia Development Update, October 2024: Women, Jobs, and Growth

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dc.contributor.authorWorld Bank
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-05T15:18:25Z
dc.date.available2024-08-05T15:18:25Z
dc.date.issued2024-10-10
dc.description.abstractSouth Asia’s growth is on track to exceed earlier expectations, in a broad-based upturn. The region is expected to remain the fastest-growing among emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). Several risks could upend this generally promising outlook, including extreme weather events, social unrest, and policy missteps, such as reform delays. But South Asian countries also have considerable untapped potential that could help them further boost productivity growth and employment and adapt to climate change. In particular, with about two-thirds of the region’s working-age women out of the labor force, raising female employment rates to those of men could increase per capita income by as much as one-half. Measures to accelerate job creation, remove obstacles to women working, and equalize gender rights would be more effective if combined with a shift toward social norms that looked more favorably on working women. Also, most South Asian countries rank among the EMDEs least open to global trade and investment. Greater openness could boost women’s employment, spur the growth of firms, and allow the region to take better advantage of the reshaping of global supply chains and trade. Reducing the cost of conducting business could help the region better harness large-scale remittance inflows.
dc.identifierhttps://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/en/099743510212434785
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/978-1-4648-2170-7
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-4648-2170-7
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/42002
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectSOUTH ASIA'S ECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subjectCLIMATE
dc.subjectGEOECONOMIC FRAGMENTATION
dc.subjectFEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIATION
dc.subjectLABOR MARKET
dc.subjectEMPLOYMENT GROWTH
dc.titleSouth Asia Development Update, October 2024: Women, Jobs, and Growth
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okr.guid099743510212434785
okr.language.supporteden
okr.region.geographicalSouth Asia
okr.topicGender
okr.topicInternational Economics and Trade
okr.topicMacroeconomics and Economic Growth
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor
okr.unitThe Office of the Chief Economist of the South Asia Region
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