Women's Economic Opportunity Index - Economist Intelligence Unit

Women’s economic opportunityA new global index and rankingCountry pagesSenegalScore RankOVERALL SCORE 38.0 94Score RankACCESS TO FINANCE 12.9 93Women’s access to finance programmes 25.0 =66Private sector credit 25.0 =66Building credit histories 1.5 88Delivering financial services 0.0 =47Score RankGENERAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT 30.3 88Starting a business 46.4 71Regulatory quality 36.8 80Mobile telephone subscribers 20.2 91Infrastructure risk 17.6 =96LABOUR POLICY AND PRACTICE 40.7 82LABOUR POLICY 52.1 =82Differential retirement age 100.0 =1Legal restrictions on job types 75.0 =54Maternity and paternity leave and provision 57.1 =51Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Policy 14.3 =99Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Policy 14.3 =98LABOUR PRACTICE 29.3 =80De facto discrimination at work 84.0 =17Access to childcare 33.3 =42Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Practice 0.0 =61Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Practice 0.0 =75EDUCATION AND TRAINING 25.1 104SME support/development training 60.0 =40Primary and secondary education, women 20.2 107Literacy rate, women 15.4 109Tertiary education, women 4.6 98WOMEN’S LEGAL AND SOCIAL STATUS 78.1 =68Freedom of movement, women 100.0 =1CEDAW ratification 100.0 =1Property ownership rights 75.0 =50Addressing violence against women 66.7 =62Adolescent fertility rate 48.7 =95GeneralBusinessEnvironmentWomen’sLegal andSocial statusLabour Policy1007550250Educationand TrainingLabourPracticeAccesstoFinanceSenegalWorld averageBest in WorldSerbiaScore RankOVERALL SCORE 52.7 55Score RankACCESS TO FINANCE 54.8 33Building credit histories 94.2 8Delivering financial services 50.0 =8Private sector credit 50.0 =41Women’s access to finance programmes 25.0 =66Score RankGENERAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT 47.8 56Starting a business 54.3 56Infrastructure risk 51.6 =52Mobile telephone subscribers 46.2 48Regulatory quality 39.1 73LABOUR POLICY AND PRACTICE 30.1 104LABOUR POLICY 40.7 99Maternity and paternity leave and provision 100.0 =1Differential retirement age 50.0 =71Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Policy 28.6 =82Legal restrictions on job types 25.0 =95Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Policy 0.0 =111LABOUR PRACTICE 19.5 =102De facto discrimination at work 44.5 =96Access to childcare 33.3 =42Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Practice 0.0 =61Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Practice 0.0 =75EDUCATION AND TRAINING 55.7 67Literacy rate, women 92.8 49Primary and secondary education, women 57.5 61Tertiary education, women 52.7 40SME support/development training 20.0 =104WOMEN’S LEGAL AND SOCIAL STATUS 97.7 19Addressing violence against women 100.0 =1Freedom of movement, women 100.0 =1Property ownership rights 100.0 =1CEDAW ratification 100.0 =1Adolescent fertility rate 88.5 47GeneralBusinessEnvironmentWomen’sLegal andSocial statusLabour Policy1007550250Educationand TrainingLabourPracticeAccesstoFinanceSerbiaWorld averageBest in World89© Economist Intelligence Unit Limited 2010