Publication: Timor-Leste Gender and Investment Climate Reform Assessment
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2010
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2017-01-25
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This report is one of six gender and investment climate reform assessments undertaken in six Pacific nations including Timor-Leste. The report analyses gender-based investment climate barriers which constrain private sector development and identifies solutions to address them. Four key investment climate areas are considered: public private dialogue; starting and licensing a business; access to justice and alternative dispute resolution; and access to, and enforcement of, rights over registered land. In each area the report considers legal, regulatory, and administrative barriers to private sector development with a gender perspective. It makes recommendations aimed at ensuring that women benefit from ongoing efforts to improve Timor-Leste’s investment climate on the same basis as their male counterparts. For more publications on IFC Sustainability please visit www.ifc.org/sustainabilitypublications.
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“Hedditch, Sonali; Manuel, Clare. 2010. Timor-Leste Gender and Investment Climate Reform Assessment. © World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25922 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”
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