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  "title": "Promoting Gender Equality and Tackling Demographic Challenges",
  "publication": "Gender Notes, June 11, 2024",
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  "summary": "Two broad contrasting demographic trends present challenges for economies globally: countries with aging populations, often advanced economies and increasingly emerging markets, anticipate a significant shrinking of the labor force, with implications for growth, economic stability, and public financ",
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      "heading": "Summary",
      "content": "- Two broad contrasting demographic trends present challenges for economies globally: aging populations (often advanced economies and increasingly emerging markets) that anticipate a significant shrinking of the labor force, and rapidly growing populations (many low-income and developing countries) that will face a burgeoning young population entering the labor market in the next decades.\n- Gender equality can serve as a stabilizing factor to rebalance demographic trends.\n- Decisions regarding fertility, human capital investment, and labor force participation are interlinked; policies should aim at relaxing households’ time and resource constraints that condition these choices."
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      "heading": "Key findings",
      "content": "- Aging populations imply implications for growth, economic stability, and public finances.\n- Rapid population growth in low-income and developing countries presents a large potential to reap the demographic dividend if the right skills and economic and social conditions are in place.\n- Gender equality is relevant in both demographic scenarios as a factor that can stabilize and rebalance demographic pressures by influencing fertility, human capital accumulation, and labor force participation."
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      "heading": "Policy recommendations",
      "content": "- For advanced economies and emerging markets:\n  - Facilitate women’s work–life choices.\n  - Boost female participation in the labor market.\n- For low-income and developing countries:\n  - Focus on reforms that narrow gender gaps in opportunities.\n  - Support human capital accumulation to harness the potential demographic dividend.\n- General policy objective:\n  - Relax households’ time and resource constraints that shape choices on fertility, human capital investment, and labor force participation."
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      "content": "- Title: Promoting Gender Equality and Tackling Demographic Challenges\n- Authors: Jiajia Gu, Lisa L Kolovich, Dr. Jorge Mondragon, Monique Newiak, Michael Herrmann\n- Publication date: June 11, 2024\n- Series: Gender Notes No. 2024/002\n- Issue: 002\n- Volume: 2024\n- Pages: 39\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400277788.067\n- Stock No: GNSEA2024002\n- ISBN: 9798400277788\n- ISSN: 3005-4591\n- Format citation (Chicago, as provided): Jiajia Gu, Lisa L Kolovich, Dr. Jorge Mondragon, Monique Newiak, and Michael Herrmann. \"Promoting Gender Equality and Tackling Demographic Challenges\", Gender Notes 2024, 002 (2024), accessed 9/20/2026, https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400277788.067\n\nInternational Monetary Fund — Promoting Gender Equality and Tackling Demographic Challenges (Gender Notes No. 2024/002).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Promoting Gender Equality and Tackling Demographic Challenges\n  - Promoting Gender Equality and Tackling Demographic Challenges (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Promoting Gender Equality and Tackling Demographic Challenges (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/gender-notes/issues/2024/06/10/promoting-gender-equality-and-tackling-demographic-challenges-549916"
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    "Authors: Jiajia Gu, Lisa L Kolovich, Dr. Jorge Mondragon, Monique Newiak, Michael Herrmann",
    "Published: June 11, 2024",
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    "Two broad contrasting demographic trends present challenges for economies globally: aging populations (often advanced economies and increasingly emerging markets) that anticipate a significant shrinking of the labor force, and rapidly growing populations (many low-income and developing countries) that will face a burgeoning young population entering the labor market in the next decades.",
    "Gender equality can serve as a stabilizing factor to rebalance demographic trends.",
    "Decisions regarding fertility, human capital investment, and labor force participation are interlinked; policies should aim at relaxing households’ time and resource constraints that condition these choices.",
    "Aging populations imply implications for growth, economic stability, and public finances.",
    "Rapid population growth in low-income and developing countries presents a large potential to reap the demographic dividend if the right skills and economic and social conditions are in place.",
    "Gender equality is relevant in both demographic scenarios as a factor that can stabilize and rebalance demographic pressures by influencing fertility, human capital accumulation, and labor force participation.",
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    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400277788.067",
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