Combining Growth and Gender Diagnostics for the Benefit of Both
Women’s economic empowerment is not a new issue; nevertheless, it continues to challenge governments and development assistance agencies. One of the reasons for this hurdle may well be that gender advocates and growth devotees are speaking different languages when there is a huge space for...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/299941557251331169/Combining-Growth-and-Gender-Diagnostics-for-the-Benefit-of-Both http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31672 |
| Summary: | Women’s economic empowerment is not a new issue;
nevertheless, it continues to challenge governments and
development assistance agencies. One of the reasons for this
hurdle may well be that gender advocates and growth devotees
are speaking different languages when there is a huge
space for them to collaborate effectively and pursue both
agendas simultaneously. This paper outlines a framework
for gender-enhanced growth diagnostics that can be used
to identify win-win solutions based on policies that target
jointly the binding constraints to economic growth and
those limiting female economic participation. The welfare
gain from such a reform surpasses the gain from a pro-growth
reform addressing only the binding constraint to
growth or that from a pro-gender reform aimed at closing
gender gaps. Using Turkey’s country growth diagnostics and
data on gender gaps, the paper uses the approach to identify
those constraints to women’s economic empowerment that
align with national growth priorities and may therefore gain
greater traction with policy makers. |
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