This paper documents the current state of gender inequalities in the WAEMU by focusing on outcomes (health, education … progress toward gender equality over the last three decades, there are still prevalent gender-based disparities, which prevent … substantial economic gains by mitigating the existing gender gaps in schooling and labor market outcomes. Hence, achieving gender …

This note reviews the literature on the complex relationship between gender and business cycles. It focuses on nuanced … patterns that challenge the notion of gender neutrality in economic fluctuations. The note also analyzes dimensions, such as …

This interim note provides general guidance on the operationalization of the IMF's Strategy Toward Mainstreaming Gender …. It offers a comprehensive overview of how IMF staff can integrate macrocritical gender issues into the IMF's core areas … of surveillance, lending, and capacity development. Key topics include i) identifying and assessing macrocritical gender …

This note argues that the IMF is filling a critical gap by integrating gender issues into it work. It makes the case … that (i) closing gender gaps is critical for economies because they lead to underdevelopment, underutilization, and … misallocation of productive human resources; and (ii) applying a gender lens to macroeconomic, financial, and structural policy …

market adjustment, the narrowing of the gender employment gap is initially driven by a reduction in the gender unemployment … gaps that, over time, results in an adjustment in the gender labor force participation gap-with men's labor force …We study the effects of monetary policy shocks on employment gender gaps in a panel of 22 countries using quarterly …

On the current pace of reforms, global gender gaps are estimated to close, using deterministic (linear or log … efforts, gender gaps may in fact never close. Using Markov chains, a common approach in macroeconomics, this paper analyzes … the dynamics of the cross-country distribution of the gender gap in labor force participation. This methodology does not …

population growth, which puts pressure on the country's resources, including food supplies. Gender inequality in the country is …

regarding gender equality. It discusses the interactions between revenue administrations and gender equality and explores how … revenue administrations can administer gender-sensitive tax laws effectively and apply a gender lens when administering tax or … considerations for a revenue administration in building gender perspectives in reform plans and shares several examples that …

insights into gender patterns. We create a novel multidimensional survey directed at eight central banks in advanced economies … (G7 national central banks and the European Central Bank), covering several aspects of gender, such as women … new comprehensive index of gender equality-Human Resources Gender Index (HRGI). We show that these central banks have room …