Gender Notes

Why a Gender Lens Matters: Unlocking Solutions to Macroeconomic Challenges

By Lisa L Kolovich, Monique Newiak, Diego B. P. Gomes, Jiajia Gu, Vivian Malta, Jorge Mondragon

October 18, 2024

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Lisa L Kolovich, Monique Newiak, Diego B. P. Gomes, Jiajia Gu, Vivian Malta, and Jorge Mondragon. "Why a Gender Lens Matters: Unlocking Solutions to Macroeconomic Challenges", Gender Notes 2024, 003 (2024), accessed November 23, 2024, https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400289538.067

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Summary

As governments design policy packages to address the main macroeconomic questions of our times, putting a gender lens on macroeconomics can amplify reform impact. In this note, IMF staff’s analysis has called for attention to strengthening legal rights, gendered aspects of fiscal policy, and enhancing women’s work–life choices, including through structural reforms. Capacity development to assist member countries in their reform efforts has grown and, so far, has centered on integrating gender into public financial management systems through gender budgeting.

Subject: Gender

Keywords: Capacity development, Gender indicators, Gender lens, Macroeconomic policy, Macro-gender tools

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