Gender analysis is improving the quality of the World Bank’s adjust- ment and programmatic lending operations in a number of areas essential to growth and poverty reduction, including protection for displaced workers, access to land, and discrimination in the rural labor market. For example: The Vietnam Poverty Reduction Support Credit has been particular- ly strong in analyzing the likely gender impacts of state-owned enter- prise reform, and integrating this analysis into the design of safety net provisions for displaced workers. The gender analysis for the credit focused on women and men as separate stakeholders on whom the reform might have different impacts. It found that men are more like- ly.
