Publication: Mongolia Gender Assessment
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2024-09-23
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2024-09-23
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Gender equality is fundamental to achieving Mongolia’s national development vision and taking advantage of the full potential of its society. Global and regional estimates by McKinsey Global Institute have shown that achieving gender parity in economic participation could increase global GDP by US$ 28 trillion (Woetzel et. al. 2015) and the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) countries’ collective GDP by US$ 4.5 trillion by 2025 (Madgavkar, Elingrud, and Krishnan 2016). The equality of opportunities in all aspects of social and economic life for all Mongolians is also an explicit objective of Mongolia’s national development strategy, Vision-2050. This gender assessment report provides an overview of the status of gender equality in Mongolia following up on the previous gender assessment conducted by the National Committee on Gender Equality (NCGE) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in 2019.
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“World Bank. 2024. Mongolia Gender Assessment. © World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/42182 License: CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO.”
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