## Gender Equality and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

_Books, April 11, 2024_

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

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### 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).*

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_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/books/issues/2024/04/11/gender-equality-and-economic-development-in-sub-saharan-africa-535742_