Economic Premise

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The Economic Premise series summarizes good practices and key policy findings on topics related to economic policy. They are produced by the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Network Vice-Presidency of the World Bank.

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Start date: 2010 × Author: Agénor, Pierre-Richard × Topic: Health, Nutrition and Population × Topic: Rural Development Knowledge and Information Systems × Subject: CHILDHOOD × Document Type: Publications & Research ×

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    Gender Equality and Economic Growth in Brazil
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2013-03) Agénor, Pierre-Richard; Canuto, Otaviano
    This note studies the long-run impacts of policies aimed at fostering gender equality on economic growth in Brazil. After a brief review of gender issues in Brazil, this note describes a framework for quantifying the growth effects of gender-based policies in developing economies. The analysis is based on a computable overlapping generations (OLG) model that accounts for the impact of access to infrastructure on women's time allocation, as well as human capital accumulation, inter- and intra-generational health externalities, and bargaining between spouses. The model is calibrated for Brazil and is used to conduct two experiments, the first involving improved access to infrastructure, and the second a reduction in gender bias in the marketplace. The key lesson of these experiments, is that fostering gender equality, which may depend significantly on the externalities that infrastructure creates in terms of women's time allocation and bargaining power, can have a substantial impact on long-run growth in Brazil.
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    Measuring the Effect of Gender-Based Policies on Economic Growth
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2012-06) Agénor, Pierre-Richard; Canuto, Otaviano
    To this day, policy makers, policy advisers, and economists in development institutions do not have any practical tools to help them to assess the impacts of policies aimed at promoting gender equality and quantify the effect of these policies on growth. Yet, there has been limited effort in that direction. This note lays out such a tool, a framework for quantifying the growth effects of gender-based policies in developing economies, developed recently in the context of a research project sponsored by the World Bank. The framework is based on analysis using a computable overlapping generation's model that accounts for the impact of access to infrastructure on women's time allocation, as well as human capital accumulation and inter- and intergenerational health externalities. The analysis also presents illustrative gender-based experiments in a calibrated version for a low-income country (Benin).