Accelerating Development: Ideas for Impact
An AI-powered, expert-led podcast on cutting-edge policy solutions for today’s biggest development challenges, direct from our global research network. 🎧 Choose your format — or listen to both: 🔹 Policy Maker Cut: Fast, focused insights for decision-makers: what matters, why it matters, and what to do next. 🔹 Researcher Deep Dive: A closer look at the data, methods, and policy thinking behind real-world impact. 🌐 Listen to other languages: https://www.podbean.com/podcast-network/wbginstitute
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Sunday Apr 13, 2025
Sunday Apr 13, 2025
Countries have made enormous progress in recent decades dismantling laws that discriminate against women, but to this day, no country has achieved true equality of opportunity. According to the World Bank 2024 Women, Business and the Law report, countries can unlock the full potential of their population by embracing legal gender equality. Closing the gender gap in employment and entrepreneurship could raise the global GDP by more than 20%. Listen to what countries can do to turbocharge global growth. Generated with AI and guided by our experts.
Host: Renos Vakis, Lead Economist at the World Bank
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Women, Business and the Law 2024 report
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Friday Apr 04, 2025
Friday Apr 04, 2025
Countries have made enormous progress in recent decades dismantling laws that discriminate against women, but to this day, no country has achieved true equality of opportunity. According to the World Bank 2024 Women, Business and the Law report, countries can unlock the full potential of their population by embracing legal gender equality. Closing the gender gap in employment and entrepreneurship could raise the global GDP by more than 20%. Listen to what countries can do to turbocharge global growth. Generated with AI and guided by our experts.
Host: Renos Vakis, Lead Economist at the World Bank
Learn more:
Women, Business and the Law 2024 report
About the Institute for Economic Development
Help us improve:
Take a few minutes to send us your feedback.