From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">crossposted from : <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font size="3" color="maroon" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold">World Development Report 2012: <u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font size="3" color="maroon" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold">The focus of the report is Gender Equality and Development<br>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">The World Bank,
2012<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Website: <a href="http://t.co/4NGvd7tF" title="http://bit.ly/xiQkAq" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">http://bit.ly/xiQkAq</span></font></a><br>

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</span></font></i><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Overview PDF [4p.] at: <a href="http://bit.ly/zv6e4D" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">http://bit.ly/zv6e4D</span></font></a>
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<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">“……………The
lives of girls and women have changed dramatically over the past quarter
century. The pace of change has been astonishing in some areas, but in others, progress
toward gender equality has been limited—even in developed countries.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">This year's World
Development Report: Gender Equality and Development argues that gender equality
is a core development objective in its own right. It is also smart economics.
Greater gender equality can enhance productivity, improve development outcomes
for the next generation, and make institutions more representative.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">The Report also focuses
on four priority areas for policy going forward: <br>
(i) reducing excess female mortality and closing education gaps where they
remain, <br>
(ii) improving access to economic opportunities for women <br>
(iii) increasing women's voice and agency in the household and in society and<br>
(iv) limiting the reproduction of gender inequality across generations.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<h3 style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font size="4" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial">Complete Report<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></h3>

<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTWDRS/EXTWDR2012/0,,contentMDK:23004468%7EpagePK:64167689%7EpiPK:64167673%7EtheSitePK:7778063,00.html" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">World Development Report 2012:
Gender Equality and Development </span></font></a> <span>(19MB,
pdf)</span> I <a href="http://issuu.com/world.bank.publications/docs/9780821388105" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">Issuu</span></font></a><br>
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<h3 style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font size="4" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial">Main Messages (multilingual)<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></h3>

<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936245355/Main-Message-English.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">English</span></font></a> | <a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936245355/Main-Message-Spanish.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">Español</span></font></a> | <a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936245355/Main-Message-French.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">Français</span></font></a> | <a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936245355/Main-Messages-Arabic.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">عربي</span></font></a>
| <a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936245355/Main-Message-Russian.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">Русский</span></font></a>
| <a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936245355/Main-Message-Portuguese.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">Português</span></font></a> |<a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936245355/Main-Message-Chinese.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext"> </span></font><font color="black" face="MS Mincho"><span style="font-family:"MS Mincho";color:windowtext" lang="JA">中文</span></font></a><br>

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<h3 style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font size="4" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial">Overview (multilingual)<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></h3>

<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936231894/Overview-English.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">English</span></font></a> | <a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936231894/Overview-Spanish.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">Españo</span></font></a>l | <a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936231894/Overview-French.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">Français</span></font></a> | <a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936231894/Overview-Arabic.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">عربي </span></font></a>|
<a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936231894/Overview-Russian.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">Русский</span></font></a>
| <a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936231894/Overview-Portuguese.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">Português</span></font></a> | <a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936231894/Overview-Chinese.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black" face="MS Mincho"><span style="font-family:"MS Mincho";color:windowtext" lang="JA">中文</span></font></a><br>

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<h3 style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font size="4" color="maroon" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon">Introduction</span></font>
</b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/Introduction.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">A guide to the Report</span></font></a> <span>(1.0MB, pdf)</span><u></u><u></u></span></font></h3>


<h3 style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font size="4" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial">Download by Chapter:<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></h3>

<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">The Report has nine
chapters in three parts.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<h3 style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font size="4" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial">Part I Taking stock of
gender equality<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></h3>

<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Part 1:Taking stock of gender equality—presents
the facts that will then provide the foundation for the rest of the Report. It
combines existing and new data to document changes in key dimensions of gender
equality over the past quarter century and across regions and countries. Its
main message is that very rapid and, in some cases, unprecedented progress has
been made in some dimensions of gender equality (<a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-1.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">chapter 1</span></font></a>), but
that it has not reached all women or been uniform across all dimensions of
gender equality (<a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-2.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">chapter 2</span></font></a>).<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>


<p style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Download:</span></font></b></b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>

Chapter 1: <a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-1.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">A Wave of progress</span></font></a> <span>(913KB, pdf)</span><br>

Chapter 2: <a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-2.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">The persistence of gender inequality</span></font></a> <span>(1.2MB, pdf)</span><br>

<i><i><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial">Spread 1:<a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1316090663409/Spread-1.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext"> Women's pathways to empowerment: Do
all roads lead to Rome?</span></font></a></span></font></i></i><span> (219KB<font color="black"><span style>, pdf)</span></font></span><font color="black"><span style><u></u><u></u></span></font></span></font></p>

<h3 style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font size="4" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial">Part II What has driven
progress? What impedes it?<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></h3>

<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">The contrast between the
patterns and trends described in the first two chapters of the Report prompts
one to ask what </span></font><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">explains the progress or lack of it. Part 2—What
has driven progress? What impedes it?—constitutes the analytical core of
the Report. It presents the conceptual framework and uses it to examine the
factors that have fostered change and the constraints that have slowed
progress. The analysis focuses on gender differences in education and health (<a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-3.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">chapter 3</span></font></a>), agency
(<a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-4.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">chapter 4</span></font></a>), and
access to economic opportunities (<a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-5.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">chapter 5</span></font></a>)—discussing
the roles of economic growth, households, markets, and institutions in
determining outcomes in these three spheres. Part 2 concludes with a discussion
of the impact of globalization on gender inequality, paying attention to the
opportunities and challenges created by new economic and social trends (<a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-6.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">chapter 6</span></font></a>). The
analysis in these four chapters leads to the identification of four priority
areas for action: reducing gender gaps in human capital endowments, promoting
higher access to economic opportunities among women, closing gender gaps in
household and societal voice, and limiting the intergenerational reproduction
of gender inequality.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Download:</span></font></b></b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>

Chapter 3: <a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-3.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">Education and health: Where do
gender differences really matter? </span></font></a><span>(4.7MB,
pdf)</span><br>
Chapter 4:<a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-4.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext"> Promoting women's agency</span></font></a><span> (3.0MB, pdf)</span><br>

<i><i><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial">Spread 2: <a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1316090663409/Spread-2.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">The decline of the breadwinner: Men
in the 21st century</span></font></a> </span></font></i></i><span><i><span style="font-style:italic">(175KB, pdf)</span></i></span><br>
Chapter 5: <a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-5.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">Gender differences in employment and
why they matter</span></font></a> (4.9MB, pdf)<br>
Chapter 6: <a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-6.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">Globalization's impact on gender
equality: What's happened and what's needed</span></font></a> <span>(1.0MB, pdf)</span><br>
<i><i><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial">Spread 3: <a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1316090663409/Spread-3.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">Changing ages, changing bodies,
changing times—Adolescent boys and girls</span></font></a> </span></font></i></i><span><i><span style="font-style:italic">(177KB.pdf)</span></i></span><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<h3 style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font size="4" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial">Part III The role of and
potential for public action<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></h3>

<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Part 3—The </span></font><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">role and
potential for public action—presents policy recommendations, examines the
political economy of reforms for gender equality, and proposes a global agenda
for action. The discussion starts with a detailed description of policy options
addressing the four priority areas, complemented with concrete illustrations of
successful interventions in different contexts (<a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-7.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">chapter 7</span></font></a>). An
examination of the political economy of gender reforms follows, with an emphasis
on the issues that distinguish reform in this area from other types of
redistributive or equality-enhancing reforms (<a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-8.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">chapter 8</span></font></a>). Global
action on gender equality should focus on complementing country efforts on the
four priority areas identified in the Report (<a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-9.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">chapter 9</span></font></a>).<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>


<p style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Download:</span></font></b></b><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold"><br>

</span></font></b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Chapter 7: <a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-7.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">Public action for gender equality </span></font></a><span>(1.0MB, pdf)</span><br>

Chapter 8: <a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-8.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">The political economy of gender
reform</span></font></a> <span>(1.1MB, pdf)</span><br>
Chapter 9: <a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-9.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">A global agenda for greater gender
equality</span></font></a><span> (522KB, pdf)</span> <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

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