Gender and Growth : Africa's Missed Potential
In the study "Can Africa claim the 21st century?" the author argues on the enormous unexploited potential the region has in its people, "a hidden growth reserve" as he refers to them, and, most importantly in its women, who now...
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okr-10986-97892021-04-23T14:02:47Z Gender and Growth : Africa's Missed Potential Gelb, Alan AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGIES AGRICULTURE CAPITAL FORMATION CROPS ECONOMIC GROWTH EMPLOYMENT EQUAL ACCESS EXTENSION FARMERS GENDER GIRLS HOUSEHOLDS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME INCOMES INTEGRATION INTERVENTIONS LABOR PRODUCTIVITY LEISURE MACROECONOMICS MARKETING PARTNERSHIP PRODUCTIVITY RURAL COMMUNITIES SAVINGS SOCIAL SERVICES SOCIETY VILLAGES WOOD GENDER EQUALITY WOMEN'S EDUCATION WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT ACCESS TO EDUCATION PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH POVERTY REDUCTION SOCIAL INEQUALITY LABOR PRODUCTIVITY SOCIAL SERVICES ACCESS In the study "Can Africa claim the 21st century?" the author argues on the enormous unexploited potential the region has in its people, "a hidden growth reserve" as he refers to them, and, most importantly in its women, who now provide more than half the region's labor, but who lack equal access to education, concluding that gender equality can be a potential force for accelerated poverty reduction in Africa. The note looks at women and men in African economies, identifying that women work far longer hours than men, being prominent in agriculture, which leads to estimate that women contribute about two thirds of the total rural transport effort. Case studies show how gender inequality limits growth, and the note further compares this reality to the potential productivity, given a gender-inclusive growth, suggesting key tasks should focus on systematic sex-disaggregation of data, to include economic production data and integration of gender modules in statistical surveys, so as to be reflected in national accounts. 2012-08-13T09:32:40Z 2012-08-13T09:32:40Z 2001-12 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/12/1660250/gender-growth-africas-missed-potential http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9789 English Africa Region Findings & Good Practice Infobriefs; No. 197 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Brief Publications & Research Africa |
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AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGIES AGRICULTURE CAPITAL FORMATION CROPS ECONOMIC GROWTH EMPLOYMENT EQUAL ACCESS EXTENSION FARMERS GENDER GIRLS HOUSEHOLDS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME INCOMES INTEGRATION INTERVENTIONS LABOR PRODUCTIVITY LEISURE MACROECONOMICS MARKETING PARTNERSHIP PRODUCTIVITY RURAL COMMUNITIES SAVINGS SOCIAL SERVICES SOCIETY VILLAGES WOOD GENDER EQUALITY WOMEN'S EDUCATION WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT ACCESS TO EDUCATION PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH POVERTY REDUCTION SOCIAL INEQUALITY LABOR PRODUCTIVITY SOCIAL SERVICES ACCESS |
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AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGIES AGRICULTURE CAPITAL FORMATION CROPS ECONOMIC GROWTH EMPLOYMENT EQUAL ACCESS EXTENSION FARMERS GENDER GIRLS HOUSEHOLDS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME INCOMES INTEGRATION INTERVENTIONS LABOR PRODUCTIVITY LEISURE MACROECONOMICS MARKETING PARTNERSHIP PRODUCTIVITY RURAL COMMUNITIES SAVINGS SOCIAL SERVICES SOCIETY VILLAGES WOOD GENDER EQUALITY WOMEN'S EDUCATION WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT ACCESS TO EDUCATION PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH POVERTY REDUCTION SOCIAL INEQUALITY LABOR PRODUCTIVITY SOCIAL SERVICES ACCESS Gelb, Alan Gender and Growth : Africa's Missed Potential |
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In the study "Can Africa claim the
21st century?" the author argues on the enormous
unexploited potential the region has in its people, "a
hidden growth reserve" as he refers to them, and, most
importantly in its women, who now provide more than half the
region's labor, but who lack equal access to education,
concluding that gender equality can be a potential force for
accelerated poverty reduction in Africa. The note looks at
women and men in African economies, identifying that women
work far longer hours than men, being prominent in
agriculture, which leads to estimate that women contribute
about two thirds of the total rural transport effort. Case
studies show how gender inequality limits growth, and the
note further compares this reality to the potential
productivity, given a gender-inclusive growth, suggesting
key tasks should focus on systematic sex-disaggregation of
data, to include economic production data and integration of
gender modules in statistical surveys, so as to be reflected
in national accounts. |
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Publications & Research :: Brief |
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Gelb, Alan |
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Gelb, Alan |
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Gender and Growth : Africa's Missed Potential |
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Gender and Growth : Africa's Missed Potential |
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Gender and Growth : Africa's Missed Potential |
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Gender and Growth : Africa's Missed Potential |
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Gender and Growth : Africa's Missed Potential |
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gender and growth : africa's missed potential |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2012 |
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