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Tackling Legal Impediments to Women’s Economic Empowerment

By: Katharine Christopherson,Audrey Yiadom,Juliet Johnson,Francisca Fernando,Hanan Yazid,Clara Thiemann

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Tackling Legal Impediments to Women’s Economic Empowerment

By: Katharine Christopherson,Audrey Yiadom,Juliet Johnson,Francisca Fernando,Hanan Yazid,Clara Thiemann

It is well established that a wide range of legal impediments in countries’ domestic laws have prevented women from achieving full economic empowerment, which in turn has negative macroeconomic implications. In many countries, laws often reflect and perpetuate gender norms that limit women’s economic participation, and removal of these impediments through legal reform has been shown to be an effective method to catalyze greater participation of women in the economy—along with the related macroeconomic benefits. Once legal barriers are removed and provisions for more equal treatment under the law are embedded, the law can also be employed as a powerful tool to incentivize women to pursue equal opportunities, change mindsets regarding the role of women, and hold institutions and individuals accountable for achieving results. Accordingly, it is imperative for countries to focus on eliminating existing legal impediments and designing appropriate incentives to increase women’s participation in the economy. This paper goes beyond previous Fund work by categorizing the key sources of laws that impede women’s economic empowerment, as well as ways in which the law can be used as a tool to create behavioral changes and shifts in perceptions of women in the economy. Case studies of six countries (Iceland, Peru, Rwanda, The Philippines, Tunisia, and the United States) that rank high in gender equality in their respective regions demonstrate how legal reforms have been implemented in differing contexts to help achieve women’s economic empowerment. Given the relevance to the Fund’s mandate, the paper also notes the case for a stepped-up role for the IMF in advising on legal reforms that remove barriers to, and incentivize, women’s economic empowerment. Although this paper highlights dominant belief systems and cultural norms that have contributed to limiting the economic empowerment of women, it does not intend to render any judgment on these systems or norms.

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International Monetary Fund

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9798400203640

This Side of Peace

A Personal Account

By: Hanan Ashrawi

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This Side of Peace

A Personal Account

By: Hanan Ashrawi

From the world-recognized leader of the Palestinians comes an inside view of Arafat and of the secret negotiations and last-minute decisions that led to the Oslo Peace Talks. "A revealing document of a partisan who has helped make Middle East history".--Publishers Weekly.

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Simon and Schuster

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068482342X

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The Politics of Art

Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan

By: Hanan Toukan

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The Politics of Art

Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan

By: Hanan Toukan

Over the last three decades, a new generation of conceptual artists has come to the fore in the Arab Middle East. As wars, peace treaties, sanctions, and large-scale economic developments have reshaped the region, this cohort of cultural producers has also found themselves at the center of intergenerational debates on the role of art in society. Central to these cultural debates is a steady stream of support from North American and European funding organizations—resources that only increased with the start of the Arab uprisings in the early 2010s. The Politics of Art offers an unprecedented look into the entanglement of art and international politics in Beirut, Ramallah, and Amman to understand the aesthetics of material production within liberal economies. Hanan Toukan outlines the political and social functions of transnationally connected and internationally funded arts organizations and initiatives, and reveals how the production of art within global frameworks can contribute to hegemonic structures even as it is critiquing them—or how it can be counterhegemonic even when it first appears not to be. In so doing, Toukan proposes not only a new way of reading contemporary art practices as they situate themselves globally, but also a new way of reading the domestic politics of the region from the vantage point of art.

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Stanford University Press

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1503627764

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Tackling Legal Impediments to Women’s Economic Empowerment

By: Katharine Christopherson,Audrey Yiadom,Juliet Johnson,Francisca Fernando,Hanan Yazid,Clara Thiemann

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Tackling Legal Impediments to Women’s Economic Empowerment

By: Katharine Christopherson,Audrey Yiadom,Juliet Johnson,Francisca Fernando,Hanan Yazid,Clara Thiemann

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The Locust and the Bird

My Mother's Story

By: Hanan al-Shaykh

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The Locust and the Bird

My Mother's Story

By: Hanan al-Shaykh

In a masterly act of literary transformation, celebrated novelist Hanan al-Shaykh re-creates the dramatic life and times of her mother, Kamila. Married at a young age against her will, Kamila soon fell head-over-heels in love with another man—and was thus forced to choose between her children and her lover. As the narrative unfolds through the years—from the bazaars, cinemas and apartments of 1930s Beirut to its war-torn streets decades later—we follow this passionate woman as she survives the tragedies and celebrates the triumphs of a life lived to the very fullest.

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Tackling Legal Impediments to Women’s Economic Empowerment

Tackling Legal Impediments to Women’s Economic Empowerment

This Side of Peace

This Side of Peace

The Politics of Art

The Politics of Art

Tackling Legal Impediments to Women’s Economic Empowerment

Tackling Legal Impediments to Women’s Economic Empowerment

The Locust and the Bird

The Locust and the Bird

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