Women, Business and the Law 2024 is the tenth in a series of annual studies measuring the enabling environment for women’s economic opportunity in 190 economies.

Women, Business and the Law updates its index of eight indicators, structured around women’s interactions with the law as they begin, progress through, and end their careers: Mobility, Workplace, Pay, Marriage, Parenthood, Entrepreneurship, Assets, and Pension.

Women, Business and the Law 2024 introduces a new framework for measuring the implementation gap across three pillars:

Appendix B: Disruptive Technology in the Energy Sector

Appendix B: Disruptive Technology in the Energy Sector

Appendix A: Examples of Disruptive Technologies and their Applications to Infrastructure

Case Study 5: Puerto Rico — Flexibility of the contractual terms was achieved through competent PPP contract management by the PPP unit.

Case Study 4: Portugal – Renegotiation of PPP Highway Contracts where the government was able to achieve its goal to reduce the costs for the contracts because the private sector' s perspective was also taken into account.

Case Study 3: United States, Maryland – a two-stage procurement process together with an innovative dialogue process could prove critical to finding the most qualified PPP team and to enhancing the probability of success.

Case Study 2: Australia – The PPP contract considers future technology improvement and provides an interesting incentive for the private partner to identify and propose technical innovations which reduce the overall costs of the project.

Case Study 1: Mongolia – Renegotiation of tariffs in PPAs caused by disruptive technology.

Process for Assessing and Resolving Issues related to Disruptive Technology.