Gender Equality and Inclusive Growth
Economic Policies to Achieve Sustainable Development
- 142 pages
- English
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Gender Equality and Inclusive Growth
Economic Policies to Achieve Sustainable Development
About This Book
Proponents of inclusive growth advocate for equity considerations to be at the front and center of growth policy. However, their principal concern is with class â not gender equality. This publication shows that economic growth is an inherently gendered process and gender-based inequalities can in fact be barriers to shared prosperity. Gender equality will thus need to be central to any project of inclusion. The book argues that for growth to be gender-equitable and truly inclusive, the pattern of growth must create decent work and productive employment for women and men. This would require policy-makers to rethink the role of macro-level economic policies, including trade, industrial, macro-economic, finance and investment policies, and to adopt human rights as a guiding normative framework. The book highlights the importance of addressing unpaid care and domestic work and calls for a transformative approach that recognizes and values care work.
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Table of contents
- Table of contents
- List of acronyms and abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Conceptualizing gender-equitable inclusive growth
- Chapter 2. Tools of macroeconomic policy: fiscal, monetary and macroprudential approaches
- Chapter 3. Gender-inclusive industrialization for growth and development in the context of globalization
- Chapter 4. Public investments and human investments: rethinking macroeconomic relationships from a gender perspective
- Chapter 5. How human rights can strengthen prospects for gender-equitable inclusive growth