Women's Economic Opportunity Index - Economist Intelligence Unit

Women’s economic opportunityA new global index and rankingCountry pagesBulgariaScore RankOVERALL SCORE 73.3 20Score RankACCESS TO FINANCE 65.0 18Private sector credit 100.0 =1Women’s access to finance programmes 75.0 =32Delivering financial services 50.0 =8Building credit histories 34.8 43Score RankGENERAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT 61.6 36Mobile telephone subscribers 65.9 11Regulatory quality 65.5 38Starting a business 63.2 36Infrastructure risk 51.6 =52LABOUR POLICY AND PRACTICE 75.1 15LABOUR POLICY 81.9 19Maternity and paternity leave and provision 100.0 =1Legal restrictions on job types 100.0 =1Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Policy 71.4 =27Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Policy 71.4 =30Differential retirement age 66.7 =69LABOUR PRACTICE 68.3 17Access to childcare 100.0 =1De facto discrimination at work 73.3 39Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Practice 50.0 =24Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Practice 50.0 =24EDUCATION AND TRAINING 66.5 43Literacy rate, women 97.6 41SME support/development training 60.0 =40Primary and secondary education, women 56.7 66Tertiary education, women 51.9 41WOMEN’S LEGAL AND SOCIAL STATUS 96.2 21Addressing violence against women 100.0 =1Freedom of movement, women 100.0 =1Property ownership rights 100.0 =1CEDAW ratification 100.0 =1Adolescent fertility rate 81.2 64GeneralBusinessEnvironmentWomen’sLegal andSocial statusLabour Policy1007550250Educationand TrainingLabourPracticeAccesstoFinanceBulgariaWorld averageBest in WorldBurkina-FasoScore RankOVERALL SCORE 34.9 102Score RankACCESS TO FINANCE 12.7 94Women’s access to finance programmes 25.0 =66Private sector credit 25.0 =66Building credit histories 0.6 94Delivering financial services 0.0 =47Score RankGENERAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT 25.3 97Starting a business 40.7 =80Regulatory quality 36.0 81Infrastructure risk 17.6 =96Mobile telephone subscribers 7.0 109LABOUR POLICY AND PRACTICE 45.0 70LABOUR POLICY 60.7 =63Differential retirement age 100.0 =1Legal restrictions on job types 75.0 =54Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Policy 42.9 =55Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Policy 42.9 =68Maternity and paternity leave and provision 42.9 =66LABOUR PRACTICE 29.3 82De facto discrimination at work 83.7 =19Access to childcare 33.3 =42Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Practice 0.0 =61Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Practice 0.0 =75EDUCATION AND TRAINING 11.6 112SME support/development training 40.0 =76Primary and secondary education, women 4.4 111Tertiary education, women 1.1 109Literacy rate, women 0.9 112WOMEN’S LEGAL AND SOCIAL STATUS 69.8 83Freedom of movement, women 100.0 =1CEDAW ratification 100.0 =1Addressing violence against women 66.7 =62Property ownership rights 50.0 =79Adolescent fertility rate 32.5 106GeneralBusinessEnvironmentWomen’sLegal andSocial statusLabour Policy1007550250Educationand TrainingLabourPracticeAccesstoFinanceBurkina-FasoWorld averageBest in World53© Economist Intelligence Unit Limited 2010