Women's Economic Opportunity Index - Economist Intelligence Unit

Women’s economic opportunityA new global index and rankingCountry pagesPortugalScore RankOVERALL SCORE 78.3 12Score RankACCESS TO FINANCE 66.9 15Women’s access to finance programmes 100.0 =1Delivering financial services 100.0 =1Building credit histories 67.8 19Private sector credit 0.0 =96Score RankGENERAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT 69.5 24Regulatory quality 75.8 28Infrastructure risk 75.8 =22Mobile telephone subscribers 66.5 10Starting a business 59.6 43LABOUR POLICY AND PRACTICE 77.4 13LABOUR POLICY 97.1 =1Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Policy 100.0 =1Maternity and paternity leave and provision 100.0 =1Legal restrictions on job types 100.0 =1Differential retirement age 100.0 =1Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Policy 85.7 =12LABOUR PRACTICE 57.6 22Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Practice 100.0 =1Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Practice 83.3 =8De facto discrimination at work 47.2 =92Access to childcare 0.0 =91EDUCATION AND TRAINING 80.2 17SME support/development training 100.0 =1Literacy rate, women 91.8 52Primary and secondary education, women 73.4 14Tertiary education, women 55.5 36WOMEN’S LEGAL AND SOCIAL STATUS 98.4 16Addressing violence against women 100.0 =1Freedom of movement, women 100.0 =1Property ownership rights 100.0 =1CEDAW ratification 100.0 =1Adolescent fertility rate 92.1 =36GeneralBusinessEnvironmentWomen’sLegal andSocial statusLabour Policy1007550250Educationand TrainingLabourPracticeAccesstoFinancePortugalWorld averageBest in WorldRomaniaScore RankOVERALL SCORE 61.0 39Score RankACCESS TO FINANCE 36.3 60Women’s access to finance programmes 75.0 =32Private sector credit 50.0 =41Building credit histories 20.1 57Delivering financial services 0.0 =47Score RankGENERAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT 59.5 41Starting a business 69.0 29Regulatory quality 59.6 45Infrastructure risk 54.9 =45Mobile telephone subscribers 54.4 32LABOUR POLICY AND PRACTICE 52.1 46LABOUR POLICY 78.6 25Maternity and paternity leave and provision 100.0 =1Legal restrictions on job types 100.0 =1Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Policy 85.7 =3Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Policy 57.1 =38Differential retirement age 50.0 =71LABOUR PRACTICE 25.7 92De facto discrimination at work 69.4 =47Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Practice 33.3 =43Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Practice 0.0 =61Access to childcare 0.0 =91EDUCATION AND TRAINING 69.7 38Literacy rate, women 96.3 44Tertiary education, women 62.5 28SME support/development training 60.0 =40Primary and secondary education, women 59.9 57WOMEN’S LEGAL AND SOCIAL STATUS 96.5 20Addressing violence against women 100.0 =1Freedom of movement, women 100.0 =1Property ownership rights 100.0 =1CEDAW ratification 100.0 =1Adolescent fertility rate 82.7 =60GeneralBusinessEnvironmentWomen’sLegal andSocial statusLabour Policy1007550250Educationand TrainingLabourPracticeAccesstoFinanceRomaniaWorld averageBest in World87© Economist Intelligence Unit Limited 2010