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F and D Magazine
F and D March 2019 PDF

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Closing the Gender Gap

Era Dabla-Norris and Kalpana Kochhar

The benefits of bringing more women into the labor force are greater than previously thought
Back to Basics

Does a Minimum Wage Help Workers?

Piyaporn Sodsriwiboon and Gabriel Srour

An overly generous wage may prompt employers to cut
jobs

PEOPLE IN ECONOMICS

Class Analyst

 Chris Wellisz profiles Branko Milanovic, a leading scholar of inequality

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WOMEN AND GROWTH

A Global Imperative

Christine Lagarde

Empowering women is critical for the world’s economy and people

Point of View: Building an Inclusive Economy

Katrín Jakobsdóttir

Iceland’s prime minister discusses what gender means for rethinking the
economy

Making It in India

Ashlin Mathew

Women struggle to break down barriers to starting a business

Invested in Gender Diversity

Rakhi Kumar

Asset owners and asset managers push to enhance gender diversity at all leadership levels

The Hidden Costs of Unpaid Caregiving

Sarah Gammage, Naziha Sultana, and Manon Mouron

The public and private sectors need to work together to promote gender
equality

Banking on the Future of Women

Sarah Hendriks

Digital financial services are cutting out the middleman to equalize opportunity

Japan’s Gender Gap

Kazuo Yamaguchi

A lack of gender equality in career opportunity and long work hours perpetuate wage differences

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

Past as Prologue

Anthony Annett and Joshua Lipsky

Ancient Rome offers lessons on the importance of sustainable
development

Citizenship and Growth

Patrick Amir Imam and Kangni Kpodar

Inclusive citizenship laws tend to foster economic development

Tech Talent Scramble

Pedro Nicolaci da Costa

Global competition for a limited pool of technology workers is heating up

The Growth Forecast Puzzle

M. Ayhan Kose, Franziska Ohnsorge, and Naotaka Sugawara

With vast technological change afoot, why are longterm forecasts becoming more pessimistic?

Editor's Letter

Equality for All

If you are born a girl, you will have to fight for your rights. Worldwide, women still earn 63 percent less than men.

In the Trenches

Pursuing Stability

Elvira Nabiullina explains how bold policy action helped Russia avert a deeper recession

Picture This

Closing the Gap

Lijun Li

Women still lag in many areas, while glaring disparity emerges in the technology field

Book Reviews

Dance of the Trillions: Developing Countries and Global Finance , David Lubin

Taxing Africa: Coercion, Reform and Development , Mick Moore, Wilson Prichard, and Odd-Helge Fjeldstad

Currency Notes

Woman for the Ages

Canada’s new $10 bill delivers a history lesson

Glenn Gottselig

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