ISBN:
1-4648-0070-7
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (pages cm)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
A World Bank study Lessons learned and not yet learned from a multicountry initiative on women's economic empowerment
Series Statement:
World Bank e-Library.
DDC:
305.42
Keywords:
Entrepreneurs.
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Women -- Economic conditions.
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Women -- Employment.
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Women Economic conditions
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Women Employment
Abstract:
The Results-Based Initiatives (RBI), launched in 2007, were a pioneering attempt to provide comprehensive, coherent, and rigorous evidence on effective interventions to foster the economic empowerment of women. The RBI comprised five small pilots with built-in impact evaluation designed to identify what works best in promoting better outcomes for women as entrepreneurs, wage earners or farmers, under different country contexts. The program was an innovative experiment in an important policy area. While there is a clear rationale for policy interventions to help remove constraints to women's ec
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Abbreviations; Executive Summary; Background; Lessons on Impact; Tables; Table ES.1 Five Results-Based Initiatives: Objectives and Approaches; Lessons on Pilot Interventions; Note; Chapter 1 Background; Why Focusing on Women's Economic Empowerment and Why Using Pilots?; Boxes; Box 1.1 When Is an Intervention a "Pilot"?; The Nuts and Bolts of the RBI Pilots; Table 1.1 T he Result-Based Initiatives: Objectives, Approach, and Outcomes; Table 1.2 Commonalities and Differences in Design, Implementation, and Impact Evaluation
Description / Table of Contents:
Table 1.3 Impact Evaluation Methods Table 1.4 Examples of Female Economic Empowerment Questions; Notes; Chapter 2 What We Have Learned about RBI Intervention Impacts and What We Could Have Learned, But Did Not; Table 2.1 Impacts on Economic Opportunities; Table 2.2 Impacts on Human Capital Endowments and Resources; Table 2.3 Impacts on Agency; Economic Opportunities; Box 2.1 Key Findings on the Impact of the Interventions; Human Capital Endowments and Assets; Agency; Note; Chapter 3 Lessons Learned on Pilot Design, Implementation, and Evaluation; Risks at the Design Stage
Description / Table of Contents:
Box 3.1 Key Requirements for Successful Pilot Implementation Table 3.1 Number of Beneficiaries; Table 3.2 Project Delays; Issues Surrounding Impact Evaluation Methodology; Box 3.2 Guidelines for Designing IE Pilots; Table 3.3 Budget and Time Constraints versus Quality of Impact Evaluation; Table 3.4 Female Economic Empowerment Indicators; Table 3.5 Observations in Treatment and Control Groups; Table 3.6 Intervention and Data Collection Levels; The Importance of Monitoring; Figure
Description / Table of Contents:
Figure 3.1 Alternative Policy Recommendations When Control Group Comparisons Find No Statistical Significant Impacts Notes; Chapter 4 Conclusions; Appendix A Country Case Study Summaries; Box A.1 The World Bank's Gender Equity Model; Appendix B Technical Concepts in Impact Evaluation Design; Appendix C Power Calculations for Mekong RBI; Bibliography
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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English
URL:
http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/978-1-4648-0068-9
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