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Our new Gender Guide highlights the gendered impacts of World Bank and IMF policy-based loans which often deepen poverty, undermine gender equality, contribute to the spread of HIV/AIDS and bring about increased violence against women. Gender Guide to World Bank and IMF Policy-Based
Lending
Gender Action’s research demonstrates that EBRD and IFC projects increase prostitution, human trafficking and HIV/AIDS. Boom-Time Blues: Big Oil’s Gender Impacts in Azerbaijan,
Georgia, and Sakhalin Gender Action is the only organization dedicated to
promoting gender equality and women’s rights in all International
Financial Institution (IFI) investments such as those of the World Bank.
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| GENDERED IMPACTS of economic POLICY
REFORMS IFI economic policy reforms imposed on poor countries slash public spending. Women bear the brunt. |
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STRATEGIES After more than 50 Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), countries want to repossess their national strategies. Most PRSPs inadequately address gender gaps and women’s rights violations. They serve as a vehicle for IFIs to impose harmful economic policy reforms. |
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| CHINA: SPECIAL
FOCUS World Bank loans to China that emphasize infrastructure and the environment rarely address social, especially gendered, impacts and ignore egregious gender problems like trafficking in women. |
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| THE GENDERED DIMENSIONS OF POST-CONFLICT
RECONSTRUCTION Gender Action examines the gendered impacts of IFI post-conflict reconstruction investments. |
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