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Research on gender and
macroeconomics was initiated as
part of the critique of
structural adjustment and
stabilization policies. These
critiques in the 1980s and 1990s
focused on demonstrating the
gender-biased and anti-poor
effects of such policies.
This focus has been broadened
through the efforts of an
International Working Group on
Gender and Macroeconomics. This
has brought together men and
women economists in a joint
effort to rethink various
dimensions of macroeconomic
analysis from a perspective that
takes into account both gender
inequality and the unpaid
provision of care in households
and communities. The first
fruits of the research were
produced as a special issue of
World Development in November
1995. This volume focused on
"Gender, Adjustment and
Macroeconomics." A second
volume, with the theme "Gender,
Macroeconomics and
Globalization" will be published
as a special issue of World
Development in early summer
2000.
The conceptual starting points
for the new gender-aware
approaches to macroeconomic
analysis can be summarized in
three main propositions (Cagatay,
Elson and Grown 1995)
1. Though economic institutions
may not be intrinsically
gendered themselves, they bear
and transmit gender biases. For
instance, ‘free markets’ reflect
and reinforce a number of
important gender inequalities.
2. The cost of reproducing and
maintaining the labour force in
a given society remains
invisible as long as the scope
of economic activity does not
include unpaid domestic work
(often called ‘reproductive
labour’ in the literature). This
unpaid work needs to be made
visible and the macro economy
redefined to include it.
3. Gender relations play an
important role in the division
of labour, the distribution of
employment, income, wealth and
productive inputs with important
macroeconomic implications.
Resources
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Engendering Economics
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Engendering Report WB
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Gender and Governance in the
Multilateral Trading
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Good Governance; Guiding
Principals for implementation
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Empowerment and Governance
through Information and
Communication Technologies
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ASEANpoverty
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Engendering Development and
Democracy
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Macroeconomics
and Budgeting
Principles – Applications
to
Gender
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Engendering Macroeconomics and
Macroeconomic Policies
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Essays on Gender and Governance
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Good Governance IMF Role
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Women, Men and Economics
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Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic
Policy from a Gender Perspective
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Women and Economic Development
and Cooperation in APEC
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Governance, Gender, Development
Assistance and Migration
►
Macroeconomics and Budgeting
Principles – Applications to
Gender
Structural Adjustment
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