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Globalisation, economic policy and employment: poverty and gender implications (pdf 345kb)

This study analyses the overall impact of globalisation and macroeconomic policies on employment and poverty trends with a specific gender perspective, and aims to engender employment and poverty implications of macroeconomic policies.

It demonstrates how the labour market and the world of work in general are clearly sex-disaggregated and how important it is to undertake analysis of the impact of macroeconomic policies on growth, employment and poverty reduction, with specific consideration of such segmentation.  The document:

- demonstrates how different aspects of macroeconomic policies affect women's and men's work differently
- makes the point that the relevant implications should be taken into consideration for the formulation of economic and employment policies
- finds that the dominant economic policy regime will have to change if the problems of jobless growth are to be addressed
- sets out a framework for the responsible management of economies in a globally integrated context, alternatives that secure economic stability without sacrificing the welfare of working people or entrenching existing gender inequalities.

 

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