Description:Vanuatu is a traditionally male dominated and largely patriarchal society. Women have extremely low representation in parliament and in other decision making bodies. Despite this, women are increasingly involved in private sector development and in the market economy. Available statistics suggest that women own nearly 30 percent of all businesses and approximately 20 percent of small and medium-sized enterprises. Yet, government support for womenOCOs economic empowerment and women in business has been limited, and reforms are needed to the general legal framework to ensure gender equality.This volume considers barriers to women doing business in Vanuatu using the World Bank GroupOCOs Doing Business indicators as a framework. By analyzing the gender dimensions of the cost of doing business, it considers how to take forward reforms to benefit both women and men. The authors argue that designing and implementing these measures makes good economic sense and will ultimately benefit all businesses in Vanuatu OCo those run by women as well as men.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Working in Health: Financing and Managing the Public Sector Health Workforce. To get started finding Working in Health: Financing and Managing the Public Sector Health Workforce, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
304
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
World Bank Publications
Release
2009
ISBN
0821378031
Working in Health: Financing and Managing the Public Sector Health Workforce
Description: Vanuatu is a traditionally male dominated and largely patriarchal society. Women have extremely low representation in parliament and in other decision making bodies. Despite this, women are increasingly involved in private sector development and in the market economy. Available statistics suggest that women own nearly 30 percent of all businesses and approximately 20 percent of small and medium-sized enterprises. Yet, government support for womenOCOs economic empowerment and women in business has been limited, and reforms are needed to the general legal framework to ensure gender equality.This volume considers barriers to women doing business in Vanuatu using the World Bank GroupOCOs Doing Business indicators as a framework. By analyzing the gender dimensions of the cost of doing business, it considers how to take forward reforms to benefit both women and men. The authors argue that designing and implementing these measures makes good economic sense and will ultimately benefit all businesses in Vanuatu OCo those run by women as well as men.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Working in Health: Financing and Managing the Public Sector Health Workforce. To get started finding Working in Health: Financing and Managing the Public Sector Health Workforce, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.