Chart of the Week Gender Budgeting Is More Widespread But Implementation Remains a Challenge
The pandemic has deepened long-standing gender gaps, with women continuing to bear the burden of unpaid work.
Engendering the Recovery: Budgeting with Women in Mind
By Antoinette Sayeh, Jiro Honda, Carolina Renteria, Vincent Tang
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International Women’s Day, March 8, marks a year from the start of widespread lockdowns in response to COVID-19. As an IMF blog warned back in July, women have borne the economic and social brunt of the pandemic. […]
Reduce Inequality To Create Opportunity
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Over the past decade, inequality has become one of the most complex and vexing challenges in the global economy.
Inequality of opportunity. Inequality across generations. Inequality between women and men. And, of course, inequality of income and wealth . They are all present in our societies and—unfortunately— in many countries they are […]
Do the Math: Include Women in Government Budgets
Every day, women around the world experience less opportunity than men in education and employment, and less political representation. […]
5 Things You Need to Know About the IMF and the Sustainable Development Goals
By Tony Annett and Chris Lane
July 26, 2018
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The global economic juggernaut is bumping into the boundaries of environmental safety (photo: Infogram).
Although we live in an age of unparalleled wealth and technological achievement, billions of people are still suffering from poverty, hunger, exclusion, and conflict. […]
5 Things You Need to Know About the IMF and Gender
Woman engineer at work: The IMF’s research shows that countries can reap benefits from closing gender gaps (photo: nimis69/iStock by Getty Images)
By IMFBlog
November 22, 2017
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Women count. They contribute to society in every way, including as a crucial part of their countries’ economic growth and prosperity.
Not long ago, few people would have expected the International Monetary Fund to be engaged in work on gender inequality. We began by incorporating gender analysis and policy advice in our annual assessments of countries’ economies. Today, with some 30 gender consultations completed, and a dozen more planned, we have made a dent. But there is still a long way to go. […]
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Every Woman Counts: Gender Budgeting in G7 Countries
May 13, 2017
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Finance ministers and central bank governors from the G7 countries met in Bari, Italy, this weekend to consider global economic issues, including steps to maintain economic stability and improving gender equality as important agenda items.
Women’s economic empowerment has long been an international priority, of course. The G6—as it was then—was first created in 1975, a year named “International Women’s Year” by the United Nations to help more women worldwide realize their full potential. Mountain climber Junko Tabei masterfully demonstrated this potential when she became the first woman to conquer Mount Everest in that year. However, as the world dealt with the aftermath of the first oil shock and the end of the fixed exchange rate system, global economic stability and women’s empowerment were rarely part of the same conversation.
Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest and the “Seven Summits”—the highest […]