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Fernández, Raquel; Luna, Francesco; Rambousek, Barbara - 2021

This paper considers various dimensions and sources of gender inequality and presents policies and best practices to address these. With women accounting for fifty percent of the global population, inclusive growth can only be achieved if it promotes gender equality. Despite recent progress,...

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Gender Equality and Economic Diversification

Kazandjian, Romina - 2016

We show that gender inequality decreases the variety of goods countries produce and export, in particular in low-income and developing countries. We argue that this happens through at least two channels: first, gender gaps in opportunity, such as lower educational enrollment rates for girls than...

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The Elusive Quest for Inclusive Growth : Growth, Poverty, and Inequality in Asia

Balakrishnan, Ravi - 2013

This paper assesses how pro-poor and inclusive Asia's recent growth has been, and what factors have been driving these …, dampening the impact of growth on poverty reduction. As a result, relative to other emerging and developing regions and to Asia … policies that could help redress these trends and broaden the benefits of growth in Asia. These include fiscal policies to …

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The Influence of Gender Budgeting in Indian States on Gender Inequality and Fiscal Spending

Stotsky, Janet Gale - 2016

This study investigates the effect of gender budgeting in India on gender inequality and fiscal spending. Gender budgeting is an approach to budgeting in which governments use fiscal policies and administration to address gender inequality and women's advancement. There is little quantitative...

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Reducing and Redistributing Unpaid Work : Stronger Policies to Support Gender Equality

Alonso, Cristian - 2019

Unpaid work, such as caring for children, the elderly, and household chores represents a significant share of economic activity but is not counted as part of GDP. Women disproportionately shoulder the burden of unpaid work: on average, women do two more hours of unpaid work per day than men,...

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Digitalization and Gender Equality in Political Leadership in Sub-Saharan Africa

Gomes, Diego; Meyimdjui, Carine - 2023

We examine the impact of digitalization on people’s perceptions of women as political leaders in 34 Sub-Saharan African countries. We find that being a social media or internet user is linked to a higher likelihood of people supporting gender equality in political leadership. However, the...

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Tackling Gender Inequality : Definitions, Trends, and Policy Designs

Shang, Baoping - 2023

This paper identifies five key issues that are important for the continued efforts to tackle gender inequality: (i) gender inequality needs to be distinguished from gender gaps. Not all gender gaps necessarily reflect gender inequality as some gender gaps are not driven by the lack of equal...

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Asia : A Survey of Gender Budgeting Efforts

Chakraborty, Lekha - 2017

This paper reviews gender budgeting efforts in Asia. The countries in the region have achieved mixed success in …

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Generational Aspects of Inclusive Growth

Baduel, Bénédicte; Ter-Martirosyan, Anna; Isakova, Asel - 2021

Sharing economic benefits equitably across all segments of society includes addressing the specific challenges of different generations. At present, youth and elderly are particularly vulnerable to poverty relative to adults in their middle years. Broad-based policies should aim to foster youth...

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Gender Equality and Electoral Violence in Africa : Unlocking the Peacemaking Potential of Women

Ouedraogo, Rasmané - 2019

We examine the impact of gender equality on electoral violence in Africa using micro-level data from the sixth round of Afrobarometer surveys. The sample covers 30 countries. We find that gender equality is associated with lower electoral violence. Quantitatively, our estimates show that an...

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