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[[tweetable]]What makes government policies work in real life for the benefit of citizens?[[/tweetable]] The answer put forward by World Development Report (WDR) 2017 is better governance – the ways in which governments and citizens work together to...

Indonesian elections wouldn’t be complete without dangdut singers. Young women, usually attired in skimpy clothes, are a must at campaign rallies, warming up supporters with hip-shaking music and gyrating movements before party bigwigs deliver...

© bluedesign / Fotolia In almost 100 countries throughout the world, parties and parliaments have responded to growing national and international pressure to increase women’s political representation by introducing electoral gender quotas...

It seems that in every mention of Icelandic women by the foreign media, Iceland is praised as a feminist utopia where women are completely equal to men on all fronts, and to a certain extent, these assertions are correct. Iceland had the world’s first...

According to the 2013 Catalyst Census: Fortune 500 Women Directors, women in America held only 16.9 percent of board seats last year—virtually no change from the 16.6 percent in 2012.  Less than one-fifth of companies had even 25 percent women directors...