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Gender gaps

02/12/2025 Go to Evidence

5.0; 4.6; 4.8; 3.0 and 5.7 points were the gender gaps in informality in Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Paraguay and Peru (OECD, 2024).

OECD, 2024

OECD, CEPAL, CAF – Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe, & Comisión Europea. (2024). Perspectivas económicas de América Latina 2024: Financiando el desarrollo sostenible. OECD Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1787/25aed2f5-es

Youth employment

02/12/2025 Go to Evidence

39.6% of youth employment was observed in LAC in 2022 (OECD, 2024).

OECD, 2024

OECD, CEPAL, CAF – Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe, & Comisión Europea. (2024). Perspectivas económicas de América Latina 2024: Financiando el desarrollo sostenible. OECD Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1787/25aed2f5-es

Gap in Honduras

02/12/2025 Go to Evidence

38.3 and 11.7 points were the extremes of the gender gap in Honduras and Uruguay (OECD, 2024).

OECD, 2024

OECD, CEPAL, CAF – Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe, & Comisión Europea. (2024). Perspectivas económicas de América Latina 2024: Financiando el desarrollo sostenible. OECD Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1787/25aed2f5-es

Gender gap

02/12/2025 Go to Evidence

The gender gap in employment rates in LAC was 24.8 percentage points in 2022 (OECD, 2024).

OECD, 2024

OECD, CEPAL, CAF – Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe, & Comisión Europea. (2024). Perspectivas económicas de América Latina 2024: Financiando el desarrollo sostenible. OECD Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1787/25aed2f5-es

Sustainable financial impact

04/12/2024 Go to Evidence

3 million women in countries such as India, Indonesia, Cambodia and the Philippines benefit from the Women’s Livelihood Bond Series (WLB), issued by Impact Investment Exchange (IIX), which supports their sustainable livelihoods (ECLAC, 2024).

CEPAL, 2024

M. Williams and A. Constable, “Climate change financing in the Caribbean: an analysis from a gender perspective”, Gender Affairs Series, No. 165 (LC/TS.2024/104), Santiago, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), 2024