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Trends in Gender Equality and Women’s Advancement

By: Ms.Janet Gale Stotsky,Sakina Shibuya,Ms.Lisa Kolovich,Suhaib Kebhaj

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Trends in Gender Equality and Women’s Advancement

By: Ms.Janet Gale Stotsky,Sakina Shibuya,Ms.Lisa Kolovich,Suhaib Kebhaj

This paper examines trends in indicators of gender equality and women’s development, using evidence derived from individual indicators and gender equality indices. We extend both the United Nations Development Program’s Gender Development Index and Gender Inequality Index to examine time trends. In recent decades, the world has moved closer to gender equality and narrowed gaps in education, health, and economic and political opportunity; however, substantial differences remain, especially in South Asia, the Middle East, and sub-Saharan Africa. The results suggest countries can make meaningful improvements in gender equality, even while significant income differences between countries remain.

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International Monetary Fund

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1498329195

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Middle East and Central Asia

A Survey of Gender Budgeting Efforts

By: Ms.Lisa Kolovich,Sakina Shibuya

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Middle East and Central Asia

A Survey of Gender Budgeting Efforts

By: Ms.Lisa Kolovich,Sakina Shibuya

Gender budgeting uses fiscal policies to promote gender equality and women’s advancement, but is struggling to take hold in the Middle East and Central Asia. We provide an overview of two gender budgeting efforts in the region—Morocco and Afghanistan. Achievements in these two countries include increasing female primary and secondary education enrollment rates and reducing maternal mortality. But the region not only needs to use fiscal policies for women’s advancement, but also reform tax and financial laws, enforce laws that assure women’s safety in public, and change laws that prevent women from taking advantage of employment opportunities.

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