The OECD applauds these efforts and outcomes (some of which exceed OECD averages, as this report details). The social and economic ills of the development process -including pervasive informality, high rates of poverty, weak rule of law and inadequate institutions - affect everyone, but hit women especially hard. Men in Pacific Alliance countries are at least 20 percentage points more likely to be in the labour market than women. This is a daunting gap.