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Women, Business and the Law 2025: Concept Note

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dc.contributor.authorWorld Bank
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-23T20:12:41Z
dc.date.available2025-04-23T20:12:41Z
dc.date.issued2025-04-25
dc.description.abstractThe World Bank Group’s Women, Business and the Law (WBL) is a global benchmarking project that provides comprehensive and comparable data on how laws, regulations, and policies affect women’s economic opportunities and private sector development in 190 economies. It is housed in the World Bank’s Development Economics Global Indicators Group (DECIG). Women, Business, and the Law (WBL) data and research findings have been instrumental in informing policy dialogue on legal reform to drive global growth and productivity for more than 15 years. Introduced in 2010, the project has amassed a rigorous worldwide database. It has produced ten reports, with more than 50 years of data, highlighting legal reforms affecting women’s economic participation from 1970 to the present. Initially focused on analyzing laws de jure on the books, the WBL Report 2024 expanded its scope to assess the de facto implementation of these laws in practice. It aims to do so by examining economies’ diverse policy and institutional frameworks in support of legal implementation and gauging experts’ perceptions on the extent of enforcement of laws. This evolution marks a significant step in understanding the existence of laws and their practical impact on women's access to jobs and markets. The WBL Concept Note establishes the project's objectives, scope, and approach. To provide a clear and concise overview, this Concept Note is divided into three sections: objective and principles; topics, motivation, and corresponding indicators; and implementation.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099041025180527833
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/43119
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/43119
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.rightsCC BY-NC 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo
dc.subjectWOMEN BUSINESS AND THE LAW (WBL)
dc.subjectDATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
dc.subjectDATA
dc.subjectLEGAL REFORM
dc.subjectLAWS
dc.subjectPOLICY DIALOGUE
dc.subjectLAWS AND REGULATIONS
dc.subjectWOMEN
dc.titleWomen, Business and the Law 2025en
dc.title.subtitleConcept Noteen
dc.typeReport
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okr.crossref.titleWomen, Business and the Law 2025: Concept Note
okr.date.disclosure2025-04-25
okr.date.doiregistration2025-04-25T02:17:48.490843Z
okr.date.doiregistration2025-05-02T02:23:37.103031Z
okr.date.lastmodified2025-04-14T04:05:14Zen
okr.doctypeEconomic & Sector Work
okr.doctypeEconomic & Sector Work::Women in Development and Gender Study
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099041025180527833
okr.guid099041025180527833
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okr.identifier.report200400
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okr.region.administrativeThe World Region
okr.topicGender::Gender and Law
okr.topicLaw and Development::Law and Gender
okr.unitWomen
okr.unitBusiness & the Law- IFC (DECWL)
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