Gender Equality and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

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• Authors: Lisa L Kolovich, Monique Newiak
• Published: April 11, 2024
• Series: Books
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400246968.071

Overview and Purpose

• Authors: Lisa L Kolovich, Monique Newiak
• Publication date: April 11, 2024
• Pages: 429
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400246968.071
• Stock No: GEEDSSAEA
• ISBN: 9798400246968
• Aim: Serve as a roadmap for policymakers, stakeholders, and advocates to harness the untapped potential of gender equality for inclusive, sustainable, and green development in sub-Saharan Africa.

Key Findings on Gender Gaps and Development

• Gender equality can drive GDP growth, enhance economic stability, reduce income inequality, and foster sustainable development.
• Gender gaps intersect with emerging challenges such as digitalization and global megatrends including climate change.
• Women and girls in the region continue to carry a disproportionate care burden that is often not captured in economic measurement.
• Progress and challenges are documented across:
  • legal reforms;
  • education;
  • health;
  • gender-based violence;
  • harmful practices, such as child marriage;
  • financial inclusion.

Policy Integration and Macroeconomic Relevance

• The book takes stock of initiatives to integrate gender into core macroeconomic and structural reforms, including implementing gender budgeting.
• Fiscal and other policies can play a role in closing gender gaps when they are mindful of distributional impacts.
• Emphasis on transforming social norms and dismantling structural barriers as prerequisites for gender-responsive policy effectiveness.

Recommended Strategies and Responses

• Prioritize gender-responsive policies that account for distributional impacts.
• Implement and scale gender budgeting as a tool to integrate gender considerations into fiscal policy.
• Develop inclusive policy responses to mitigate the gendered effects of digitalization and climate change.
• Address unpaid care work measurement gaps to better inform policy design.

Thematic Scope and Subjects Covered

• Subject areas: Central banks, Education, Financial crises, Gender, Gender budgeting, Gender inequality, Health, Women.
• Keywords include: Africa; care work; child marriage; completion rate; female-to-male labor force participation ratio; Gender budgeting; gender equality macroeconomics fiscal policies legal rights structural policies financial access sub-Saharan Africa gender analysis; Gender inequality; social media usage; Sub-Saharan Africa; Women.

Source: IMF publication landing page for "Gender Equality and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa" (April 11, 2024).