Levelling the playing field

Abstract

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Trade and gender

“…Much of the policy knowledge to date regarding gender gaps in education, employment, wages, unpaid work and entrepreneurship is summarized in OECD (2017b). A recent contribution by Lassébie et al (2019) addresses access to finance by women entrepreneurs. Single parents will be particularly hard hit.…”