GENDER EQUALITY MATTERS: THE WAY FORWARD
	Friday September 23, 2011 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM H Auditorium
	Archive video link available at http://www.worldbank.org/pos/ Gender equality matters for development, as shown in this year's World Development Report (WDR). It matters because it is a core development objective in its own right, and because gender equality is smart economics - it can improve other development outcomes as well as the prospects for the next generation. It also matters for development policy-making because broad-based economic development closes some, although not all, gender disparities. While the last quarter century has seen the unprecedented narrowing of many gender gaps in education, health and labor market opportunities, not all gender disparities shrink with economic development. Therefore, corrective policies are needed to focus especially on the gaps that persist even as countries get richer. Bringing a gender perspective to development policy-making can also help make other policies more effective, even when they do not target gender equality itself. Key questions addressed included: Where is the payoff for development from addressing gender disparities potentially the largest? Where do higher incomes by themselves reduce gender gaps? Where would reorientation of policies yield the greatest benefit?
	Panelist(s): Ramzia Abbas Aleryani , General Secretary, General Arab Women Union, and Chairperson, Yemeni Women Union, Yemen Caroline Anstey , Managing Director, World Bank Group Kaushik Basu , Chief Economic Advisor to the Government, India Naila Chowdhury , Chief Executive Officer, Grameen Solutions, Bangladesh Ib Petersen , State Secretary for Development Policy, Denmark John Rwangombwa , Minister, Ministry of Finance, Rwanda
	Moderator(s): Gillian Tett , US Managing Editor, Financial Times, United States
	Organized by: Alejandra Viveros, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management; Ana Maria Munoz, Development Economics – World Bank Group
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