With a focus on sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, this research program seeks to develop innovative ways for evidence
to promote better policies and outcomes for women and for societies as a whole. The current call for outline research proposals is on two themes: 1. What are the nature and magnitude of barriers to women’s economic empowerment and to closing gender gaps in earnings and productivity? How can these barriers be overcome?; and 2. How do specific
patterns of economic growth and types of structural change affect women’s economic empowerment and gender equality?