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Women's Economic Opportunity Index - Economist Intelligence Unit

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Women’s economic opportunityA new global index and rankingCountry pagesZambiaScore RankOVERALL SCORE 36.9 96Score RankACCESS TO FINANCE 6.3 103Women’s access to finance programmes 25.0 =66Building credit histories 0.3 96Delivering financial services 0.0 =47Private sector credit 0.0 =96Score RankGENERAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT 31.0 87Starting a business 48.5 =63Regulatory quality 35.6 85Infrastructure risk 27.5 =79Mobile telephone subscribers 12.4 104LABOUR POLICY AND PRACTICE 47.0 65LABOUR POLICY 65.7 =50Legal restrictions on job types 100.0 =1Differential retirement age 100.0 =1Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Policy 57.1 =38Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Policy 57.1 =48Maternity and paternity leave and provision 14.3 =87LABOUR PRACTICE 28.3 83De facto discrimination at work 79.8 26Access to childcare 33.3 =42Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Practice 0.0 =61Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Practice 0.0 =75EDUCATION AND TRAINING 31.5 101Primary and secondary education, women 55.1 70Literacy rate, women 50.5 97SME support/development training 20.0 =104Tertiary education, women 0.5 112WOMEN’S LEGAL AND SOCIAL STATUS 58.3 91Freedom of movement, women 100.0 =1CEDAW ratification 100.0 =1Addressing violence against women 66.7 =62Adolescent fertility rate 24.6 109Property ownership rights 0.0 =106GeneralBusinessEnvironmentWomen’sLegal andSocial statusLabour Policy1007550250Educationand TrainingLabourPracticeAccesstoFinanceZambiaWorld averageBest in World102© <strong>Economist</strong> <strong>Intelligence</strong> <strong>Unit</strong> Limited 2010

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