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Legal Barriers to Economic Participation
Friday, October 23 &
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
A woman street vendor who sells drinks and food walks on the street in Jakarta September 1, 2015. REUTERS/Beawiharta
This roundtable discussion “Legal Barriers to Economic Participation” with Sarah Iqbal, director of the World Bank Group’s Women, Business, and the Law project, highlights findings from the World Bank’s fourth edition of the global Women, Business and the Law report series.
The report measures how laws, regulations, and institutions differentiate between women and men in ways that affect women’s incentives or capacity to work or to set up and run a business. It provides data on legal and regulatory barriers to women’s entrepreneurship and employment in 173 economies.