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  "title": "Gender Equality and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa",
  "publication": "Books, April 11, 2024",
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  "summary": "Efforts to achieve gender equality will not only help sub-Saharan Africa revive its inclusive growth engine but also will ensure progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals and help address the main disruptive challenges of this century.",
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      "heading": "Overview and Purpose",
      "content": "- Authors: Lisa L Kolovich, Monique Newiak\n- Publication date: April 11, 2024\n- Pages: 429\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400246968.071\n- Stock No: GEEDSSAEA\n- ISBN: 9798400246968\n- 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."
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      "heading": "Key Findings on Gender Gaps and Development",
      "content": "- Gender equality can drive GDP growth, enhance economic stability, reduce income inequality, and foster sustainable development.\n- Gender gaps intersect with emerging challenges such as digitalization and global megatrends including climate change.\n- Women and girls in the region continue to carry a disproportionate care burden that is often not captured in economic measurement.\n- Progress and challenges are documented across:\n  - legal reforms;\n  - education;\n  - health;\n  - gender-based violence;\n  - harmful practices, such as child marriage;\n  - financial inclusion."
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    {
      "heading": "Policy Integration and Macroeconomic Relevance",
      "content": "- The book takes stock of initiatives to integrate gender into core macroeconomic and structural reforms, including implementing gender budgeting.\n- Fiscal and other policies can play a role in closing gender gaps when they are mindful of distributional impacts.\n- Emphasis on transforming social norms and dismantling structural barriers as prerequisites for gender-responsive policy effectiveness."
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      "heading": "Recommended Strategies and Responses",
      "content": "- Prioritize gender-responsive policies that account for distributional impacts.\n- Implement and scale gender budgeting as a tool to integrate gender considerations into fiscal policy.\n- Develop inclusive policy responses to mitigate the gendered effects of digitalization and climate change.\n- Address unpaid care work measurement gaps to better inform policy design."
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      "heading": "Thematic Scope and Subjects Covered",
      "content": "- Subject areas: Central banks, Education, Financial crises, Gender, Gender budgeting, Gender inequality, Health, Women.\n- 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.\n\nSource: IMF publication landing page for \"Gender Equality and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa\" (April 11, 2024).\n\n---\n\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/books/issues/2024/04/11/gender-equality-and-economic-development-in-sub-saharan-africa-535742"
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    "Authors: Lisa L Kolovich, Monique Newiak",
    "Published: April 11, 2024",
    "Series: Books",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400246968.071",
    "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.",
    "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:",
    "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.",
    "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.",
    "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."
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