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Description
World Bank Women, Business and the Law indicators measure legal rights affecting women's economic opportunities globally. The dataset provides structured metrics on laws and regulations related to marriage, mobility, workplace, pay, and entrepreneurship. It is compiled by the World Bank Group.
Use Cases
Analyze the relationship between specific marriage rights indicators and female labor force participation rates.
Benchmark a country's legal framework for women against global or regional averages using standardized scores.
Track changes over time in laws affecting women's property rights and inheritance within marriage.
Model the correlation between legal restrictions on women's mobility and entrepreneurship metrics.
Strengths
Indicators are derived from the authoritative World Bank Women, Business and the Law project.
Data covers a broad global scope, typically including over 190 economies.
Limitations
The dataset is based on de jure laws and may not reflect de facto implementation or enforcement.
Specific row counts, column details, and update frequency are not provided in the input.
Provenance
Source
World Bank Group, Women Business and the Law project.
Collection Method
Legal analysis of laws and regulations conducted by experts.
Geography
Global
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