Sur le continent africain, où le niveau global d’inclusion financière est déjà faible, il est particulièrement difficile pour les femmes d’accéder aux services financiers par rapport aux hommes. Ce document de politique générale expose une série de recommandations pour les décideurs politiques, à savoir les entités gouvernementales, les banques centrales et les autorités de réglementation, destinées à traiter cette question.
The ILO’s central statistics database ILOSTAT is the primary source for cross-country statistics on the labor market. The database contains over 100 indicators covering more than 230 countries and economies, including information on female employment by country.
The DAC Network on Gender Equality (GENDERNET) from OECD is the only international forum where experts from development cooperation agencies meet to define common approaches in support of gender equality and women’s rights.
The United Nations Development Programme’s GII measures gender inequalities in three important aspects of human development—reproductive health measured by maternal mortality ratio and adolescent birth rates; empowerment, measured by proportion of parliamentary seats occupied by females and proportion of adult females and males aged 25 years and older with at least some secondary education; and economic status expressed as labour market participation and measured by labour force participation rate of female and male populations aged 15 years and older.
The primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources, presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates. The data includes information on the status of women in business and the economy.
