Women's Economic Opportunity Index - Economist Intelligence Unit

Women’s economic opportunityA new global index and rankingCountry pagesParaguayScore RankOVERALL SCORE 49.0 69Score RankACCESS TO FINANCE 24.4 83Building credit histories 47.4 32Women’s access to finance programmes 25.0 =66Private sector credit 25.0 =66Delivering financial services 0.0 =47Score RankGENERAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT 36.0 78Starting a business 46.7 =69Mobile telephone subscribers 45.1 51Regulatory quality 31.4 94Infrastructure risk 20.9 =91LABOUR POLICY AND PRACTICE 43.9 71LABOUR POLICY 63.6 =58Differential retirement age 100.0 =1Legal restrictions on job types 75.0 =54Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Policy 57.1 =48Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Policy 42.9 =55Maternity and paternity leave and provision 42.9 =66LABOUR PRACTICE 24.2 96Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Practice 50.0 =24De facto discrimination at work 46.9 94Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Practice 0.0 =61Access to childcare 0.0 =91EDUCATION AND TRAINING 52.3 76Literacy rate, women 91.9 51Primary and secondary education, women 51.4 76SME support/development training 40.0 =76Tertiary education, women 25.9 72WOMEN’S LEGAL AND SOCIAL STATUS 93.4 25Addressing violence against women 100.0 =1Freedom of movement, women 100.0 =1Property ownership rights 100.0 =1CEDAW ratification 100.0 =1Adolescent fertility rate 67.0 82GeneralBusinessEnvironmentWomen’sLegal andSocial statusLabour Policy1007550250Educationand TrainingLabourPracticeAccesstoFinanceParaguayWorld averageBest in WorldPeruScore RankOVERALL SCORE 53.0 54Score RankACCESS TO FINANCE 20.5 85Building credit histories 31.8 46Women’s access to finance programmes 25.0 =66Private sector credit 25.0 =66Delivering financial services 0.0 =47Score RankGENERAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT 42.3 65Regulatory quality 54.1 51Starting a business 42.8 75Infrastructure risk 38.5 =64Mobile telephone subscribers 34.1 72LABOUR POLICY AND PRACTICE 53.3 43LABOUR POLICY 74.3 =30Legal restrictions on job types 100.0 =1Differential retirement age 100.0 =1Maternity and paternity leave and provision 71.4 =41Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Policy 57.1 =48Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Policy 42.9 =55LABOUR PRACTICE 32.4 71De facto discrimination at work 62.9 68Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Practice 33.3 =43Access to childcare 33.3 =42Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Practice 0.0 =61EDUCATION AND TRAINING 59.5 56Literacy rate, women 80.8 76Primary and secondary education, women 63.0 42SME support/development training 60.0 =40Tertiary education, women 34.3 60WOMEN’S LEGAL AND SOCIAL STATUS 89.0 38Addressing violence against women 100.0 =1Freedom of movement, women 100.0 =1CEDAW ratification 100.0 =1Property ownership rights 75.0 =50Adolescent fertility rate 70.2 78GeneralBusinessEnvironmentWomen’sLegal andSocial statusLabour Policy1007550250Educationand TrainingLabourPracticeAccesstoFinancePeruWorld averageBest in World85© Economist Intelligence Unit Limited 2010