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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Main Authors:	Ianchovichina, Elena, Leipziger, Danny
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
Subjects:	GENDER ECONOMIC GROWTH EMPOWERMENT INCLUSIVE GROWTH EFFICIENCY
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

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spelling	okr-10986-316722022-04-25T12:21:10Z Combining Growth and Gender Diagnostics for the Benefit of Both Ianchovichina, Elena Leipziger, Danny GENDER ECONOMIC GROWTH EMPOWERMENT INCLUSIVE GROWTH EFFICIENCY 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. 2019-05-10T15:02:51Z 2019-05-10T15:02:51Z 2019-05 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/299941557251331169/Combining-Growth-and-Gender-Diagnostics-for-the-Benefit-of-Both http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31672 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8847 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Europe and Central Asia Turkey
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description	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.
format	Working Paper
author	Ianchovichina, Elena Leipziger, Danny
author_facet	Ianchovichina, Elena Leipziger, Danny
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title	Combining Growth and Gender Diagnostics for the Benefit of Both
title_short	Combining Growth and Gender Diagnostics for the Benefit of Both
title_full	Combining Growth and Gender Diagnostics for the Benefit of Both
title_fullStr	Combining Growth and Gender Diagnostics for the Benefit of Both
title_full_unstemmed	Combining Growth and Gender Diagnostics for the Benefit of Both
title_sort	combining growth and gender diagnostics for the benefit of both
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2019
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/299941557251331169/Combining-Growth-and-Gender-Diagnostics-for-the-Benefit-of-Both http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31672
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