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Women, Business and the Law 2020
January 18 , 2020
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- Women, Business and the Law 2020, the sixth edition in a series, has been released.
- Women, Business and the Law (WBL) is a World Bank Group project collecting unique data on the laws and regulations that restrict women’s economic opportunities.
- The index analyzes laws and regulations affecting women’s economic inclusion in 190 economies.
- It is composed by eight indicators structured around women’s interactions with the law.
- The indicators are Mobility, Workplace, Pay, Marriage, Parenthood, Entrepreneurship, Assets, and Pension.
- No economy in ‘East Asia and the Pacific’, ‘Europe and Central Asia’, or ‘Latin America and the Caribbean’ were among top reformers.
- Only eight economies scored a perfect 100 —Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Latvia, Luxembourg, and Sweden.
- Those countries have ensured equal legal standing to men and women on all the eight indicators of the index.
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