Ana Revenga

A hairdresser uses her phone as she waits for clients at a makeshift saloon in Soweto, August 4, 2014. While still largely based in the informal economy, the African haircare business has become a multi-billion dollar industry that stretches to China and India and has drawn global giants such as L'Oreal and Unilever. Hairdressers are a fixture of markets and taxi ranks across Africa, reflecting both the continent's rising incomes and demand from hair-conscious women. Picture taken August 4. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko (SOUTH AFRICA - Tags: BUSINESS SOCIETY TELECOMS)

What types of interventions promote women’s entrepreneurship?

Ana Revenga and Meagan Dooley

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

A woman looks on at the Chongqing Iron and Steel plant in Changshou, Chongqing, China August 6, 2018. Picture taken August 6, 2018. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

Gender and growth: The constraints that bind (or don’t)

Ana Revenga and Meagan Dooley

Thursday, April 16, 2020

A man carries buckets of water at a vegetable field, near a new residential compound, in Hefei, Anhui province, November 13, 2013. The Chinese Communist Party said it would work to deepen fiscal and tax reform, establish a unified land market in cities and the countryside, give farmers more property rights, and develop a sustainable social security system - all seen as necessary for putting the world's second-largest economy on a more stable footing. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: AGRICULTURE SOCIETY POLITICS) - GM1E9BD1HLE01

Is inequality really on the rise?

Ana Revenga and Meagan Dooley

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Clothes sellers exchange money in Marina, in Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos, Nigeria February 11, 2019. REUTERS/Nyancho NwaNri - RC1C4E42FD10

The Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative: Will it work?

Ana Revenga and Meagan Dooley

Thursday, March 7, 2019

Gulaban, 25, mother of three, climbs into a 60-tonne truck, during a training session of the Female Dump Truck Driver Programme, held by the Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company (SECMC), in Islamkot, Tharparkar, Pakistan September 21, 2017. Picture taken September 21, 2017. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro - RC14E23BF690

How to boost female employment in South Asia

Martin Rama and Ana Revenga

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

A chemical engineer checks a flask of biofuel at Oleoplan factory in Passo Fundo, 300 km (186 miles) southwest of Porto Alegre, May 21, 2010. With its biofuels business increasingly dominated by giant corporations, Brazil is seeking to extend the sector to include small farmers who can improve their incomes by planting the crops used to make fuel. Picture taken May 21. To match Feature BRAZIL-BIOFUELS/ REUTERS/Bruno Domingos (BRAZIL - Tags: BUSINESS ENERGY SCI TECH) - RTR2HICN

Breaking the STEM ceiling for girls

Ana Maria Munoz-Boudet and Ana Revenga

Tuesday, March 7, 2017