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Actualités

Atlas of Gender and Development: How Social Norms Affect Gender Equality in non-OECD Countries

16-mars-2010

The "Atlas of Gender and Development: How Social Norms Affect Gender Equality in Non-OECD Countries" was recently launched during the International Workshop "Gender Equality and Progress of Societies"  on 12 March 2010. This new resource combines country and regional analysis with rankings based on the Development Centre’s social institutions and gender index (SIGI). For more information please visit www.wikigender.org and add your comments!

L’explosion de l’emploi informel dans le monde nécessite la création urgente d’emplois de meilleure qualité

08-avr.-2009

Près de deux milliards de personnes travaillent dans le secteur informel. Ces travailleurs sont mal payés, n’ont pas de contrat de travail ni de prestations sociales. Dans le contexte de la crise économique actuelle, dont l’une des conséquences pourrait être la perte d’emplois dans le secteur formel, L’Emploi informel dans les pays en développement : une normalité indépassable ? donne des clefs aux décideurs pour faire face à ce défi et stimuler la création d’emplois de meilleure qualité pour tous.

New OECD index measures causes of gender discrimination

03-mars-2009

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, the OECD Development Centre presents a new index to track causes of gender inequality. Drawing on 12 innovative variables, the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) explains why women in many developing countries are deprived of social and economic development. In countries with high SIGI values, building more schools or giving micro-credit to women risk being ineffective when traditions and social norms prevent girls from leaving the house alone or accessing land, technology or information.

OECD tracks gender inequality in developing countries

03-mars-2009

The OECD's Development Centre measures discrimintation that restricts women's ability to access resources in 102 developing countries. The centre will present this new measure on 5 March 2009 at the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations.

Informal Employment and the Economic Crisis

29-janv.-2009

The current economic crisis has deep implications for employment across the planet. It brings to an end a period of relatively strong and sustained growth, which was accompanied by the creation of many new jobs. World employment in 2007 was almost one third higher compared with 1990.

Évènements clés - 2009

05-janv.-2009

L'équipe "Réduction de la Pauvreté et Développement Social" du Centre de Développement de l'OCDE organise plusieurs évènements marquants en 2009, dont la sortie de la Base de Données Égalité homme-femme, Institutions et Développement (EID) 2009 et le lancement de la publication phare "L'informel est normal - vers plus d'emplois de meilleure qualité dans les pays en voie de développement".


Evénements

Tracking Discrimination - The Development Centre at the 2009 Commission on the Status of Women

le 05-mars-2009

Gender inequality has multiple facets, including both overt and more hidden instances of discrimination. In the framework of the 2009 session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), the Development Centre will launch a new composite index shedding light on inequalities that are based on social norms and traditions.

Achieving codevelopment between Africa and France

The migration team of the Development Centre, led by Mr. Jeff Dayton-Johnson, reminded government representatives in an international seminar of the importance for coordinated migration and development policies. These need to be based on a realistic understanding of the dynamics of the migration process. The seminar was organised by the Fondation Concorde and brought together key members of the French Ministry of Immigration.

European Governance of Migration

du 17-sept.-2008 au 19-sept.-2008

On 17-19 September, we participated in an international conference organised by the Böll Foundation (Germany). Our paper on "Migration Management: The Development Countries' Perspective" stimulated a lively debate on how to improve the development impact in migrant sending regions.



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