Policy Paper
High Ambitions and High Risks: Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA)
Policy Paper
The Post-2015 Framework: Merging Care and Green Economy Approaches to Finance Gender-Equitable Sustainable Development
- - After Rio+20, the proposed post-2015 framework needs to learn from the shortcomings of the MDG-process and merge care economy and green economy approaches to advance and finance truly gender-equitable sustainable development more»
Policy Paper
Implementing Gender Equality at the World Bank
- - Gender equality efforts at the World Bank are not new. Several recent World Bank and external reports have taken stock of how successfully gender equality concerns have been mainstreamed in World Bank activities in the past few years. This analysis finds that while there have been some improvements ,persistent weaknesses in implementation remain largely due to a focus on internal process over gender equality impacts in developing countries. more»
Report
Missing Women: The G20, Gender Equality and Global Economic Governance
- - The policy priorities of the G20 have profound gender implications, although the G20 rarely recognizes this fact. This report explores the possibilities for gender bias in the G20's policies, including those related to: fiscal and monetary priorities, employment, social protection, and development. more»
report
An Endless Wait with Uncertain Future: Unpacking the Energy Crisis
- - The urgent need to address climate change, the concerns of depleting fossil fuel reserves, volatile global oil prices and continued economic crisis amongst other reasons have put energy at the center of public policy debates. While the discussions are centered around addressing energy security, often focused primarily around electricity generation, the more immediate energy crisis is in creating equitable energy access and eradicating energy poverty. more»
report
The Future We Want. A Feminist Perspective
- - The multiple crises – the financial crash, hunger, climate change and resource scarcity – demonstrate emphatically that neoliberal market globalization cannot fulfill its promises: namely to bring about the optimal allocation of resources on the entire planet and thus be a win-win game for all. more»
Policy paper
The World Bank's Proposed Program for Results (P4R)
- - This paper critiques the World Bank's proposed Program for Results (P4R) instrument by examining protections of the environment and affected communities and control of corruption (Part I); the effectiveness of proposed mechanisms of accountability (Part II); and the integrity of the consultation process on the proposed P4R instrument (Part III). Part IV presents conclusions. more»
Needed: A True World Bank Development Report on Gender Equality
- - It is certainly laudable that gender equality gets the serious consideration it deserves in the current international development discourse, and having a WDR exclusively focused on gender equality gives it yet another ‘stamp of approval’ of being an intrinsic development issue. Too bad, that the World Bank is not using this occasion to accompany the academic exercise internally with a serious reflection and reconsideration of the Bank’s own understanding of and approach to gender equality. more»
Policy Paper
Women's Leadership: Pressing for Real Change in Finance and Sustainable Development
- - On October 22, Nancy Alexander spoke at the Global Capital Forum of the Korean Women's Development Institute about the importance of women's leadership in achieving sustainable development. Her paper appears here. more»
More than an Add-on: the Centrality of Gender Equality for Development and Climate Solutions
- - Gender equality is highlighted as a special theme in the ongoing 16th round of replenishment talks for the World Bank Group’s International Development Association (IDA 16). A discussion about gender equality at the World Bank group is not new. Since 2001, the World Bank has had an official gender mainstreaming strategy. Yet there are some structural weaknesses in the way the World Bank addresses gender considerations that need to be overcome in order for IDA 16 to be able to contribute to gender-equitable development in the poorest developing countries. more»
article
Gender and Financial Crisis: Chinese Aspiring Equitable Response
- April 2009
In this analysis, Lanyan Chen analysis China's consequences of the aftermath of the financial crisis with regard to women. more»
policy Paper
Gender Implications of the Financial Crisis in the United States
- August 2009
"The United States is a women’s success story in many ways... Yet for the past two decades at least, policies in other countries are catching up with and exceeding those in the United States, so that we can no longer consider ourselves the leader in women’s achievement or economic well-being." more»
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The Current Economic and Financial Crisis: a Gender Perspective
- Summer 2009
This paper shows how the mortage debacle in the US affected not only the world economy, but also, and most seriously women and the poor. more»
Dossier
Gender, Macroeconomics and the International Financial Institutions
- In August 2007, the Heinrich Böll Foundation brought some 65 women and men from 37 countries to Washington, D.C. for our 5th international Summer School on Engendering Economics in a Globalizing World. more»
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