Macro-economics : making gender matter : concepts, policies and institutional change in developing countries / edited by Martha Gutiérrez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gutierrez, Martha, 1969-

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Feminist economics.

Macroeconomics.

Physical Description:

xv, 304 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Zed Books : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave, 2003.

Summary:

The gender approach is entering mainstream economics. The discipline is increasingly examining macro-economic theories and policies in the light of their differential impacts on men and women. This volume, with its wide-ranging theoretical explorations and specific case studies, seeks to make a contribution to this process. This book makes clear that systematic gender biases are present at all levels -- in institutions, markets and the household -- and presents options for introducing social structures to the macro-economic agenda. The intention is to offer a new framework that brings economic theory and policy-making closer to the circumstances and motivations of real life economic agents. The contributors cover three broad areas -- macro-economics and gender, gender and the state, and the institutionalization of gender considerations in national and international organizations. Using original empirical material, in particular from Latin American countries, they explore a wide range of key issues. These include the gender-differentiated effects of economic policy and public spending decisions; unpaid household labour and its measurement; gender statistics; gender equality in planning and public policy; and the notion of economies as gendered structures. With backgrounds in a variety of disciplines, the authors go beyond a theoretical debate and place the practical realities of policy making centre stage. Their work should be relevant to development research and activity worldwide, while being particularly valuable in its emphasis on how state reform processes can advance a democratic development for women and men on equal terms.

Contents:

Part 1 Macro-economics and Gender 1

1 Broadening the Foundations of Macro-economic Models through a Gender Approach: New Developments / Barbara Evers 3

Gender inequalities and growth 4

Gender analysis at the macro level 6

Limitations of a micro-foundations approach to macro-economics 7

Engendering macro-economic models: recent developments 8

Gender as a social institution: incorporating social reproduction into macro-economics 12

Implications for policy 16

2 Engendering Macro-economics / Nilufer Cagatay 22

Rethinking the conceptual framework of macro-economics and stylized facts on gender 23

Engendered macro-economic modelling 30

Gender and macro-economic policy 32

Engendering macro-economics and the UNDP 35

3 Social and Gender Issues in Macro-economic Policy Advice / Ingrid Palmer 42

The subject matter of macro-economics 44

Informing macro-economics of gender realities 48

Key areas of gender relevance at the macro level 60

Suggestions for an agenda of consolidating activities 76

4 Macro-economics and Gender: Options for Their Integration into a State Agenda / Joerg Freiberg-Strauss 88

Are they two different perspectives? 88

The link between the micro and the macro 90

Gender and macro-economic models 91

Growth and equity in Latin America 93

Proposals for the drafting of policies 94

From theory to practice 95

5 Economic Policies, Public Spending and Gender-differentiated Effects / Rebeca Grynspan 97

Economic policies and public spending 97

Towards the attainment of gender equality 99

Privatization of services and funnelling 99

Streamlining the state apparatus 101

Decentralization 103

Alternative proposals 104

6 Unpaid Household Labour: A Conceptual Approach / Fabiola Campillo 106

Effects of unpaid household labour on the national economy 107

Learning from some economic measuring instruments 111

Changes in the caring economy? 116

7 Measurement and Valuation of Unpaid Household Production: A Methodological Contribution / Tatjana Sikoska 122

The unrecognized value of household work 124

The system of national accounts and the system of satellite accounts 127

The interface between the household and the market production sectors 127

Available methodologies for the measurement and valuation of unpaid household production 129

Can satellite accounts on household production be established? 132

Lessons learned: conclusions and recommendations 142

8 Do We Have Gender Statistics? / Thelma Galvez 146

Conventional statistics and gender 146

The demand for gender-sensitive statistics 150

State of the art of official statistics 154

Proposal for the construction of gender statistics 155

Difficulties encountered in national statistics systems 160

Suggestions for action 162

Part 2 Gender and the State 167

9 Gender and the State: Between Disenchantment and Hope / Maria Cristina Rojas, Elvia Caro 169

The state as a reproducer of gender relations 169

Genderneutrality and distension in public policy 170

The state as a constituent part of gender relations 173

Gender policies as institutionalized interpretative systems 176

10 State Modernization, Institutional Change and Gender / Annette Backhaus 184

Gender on the public agenda 184

The resistance of bureaucracies 185

State reforms: new paradigms for a gender agenda? 190

Institutional change: overcoming the preference for males 193

Part 3 Institutionalizing Gender in National and International Organizations 199

11 Gender Equality in Public Planning Institutions / Barbara Hess, Ana Rico de Alonso 201

Components of the process of institutionalization 202

Factors that favour or hinder institutionalization 203

Experiences gathered by the pro-equity project 204

Experiences of the Colombian National Planning Department (DNP) with the institutionalization of the gender approach 205

12 Gender Equality in Public Policies: The UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean / Jose Antonio Ocampo 212

Some consensus 212

ECLAC's approach to the issue of gender 213

The instruments 214

Diagnoses 217

Approaches and policies 219

13 The Institutionalization of the Gender Approach within ECLAC / Maria Nieves Rico 223

The gender approach at ECLAC 223

Sustainability 227

Part 4 Case Studies from Latin America 231

14 Gender and the Labour Market in Colombia / Cecilia Lopez Montano 233

The female urban labour market 235

Female rural labour market 244

15 Poverty Information, Poverty Reduction Strategies and Gender: A Colombian Case Study / Rosemary McGee 251

Some underlying premises 252

Poor women and men, girls and boys 254

The current approach to poverty reduction in Colombia 257

A view from the field 258

Implications of these findings for the efficacy of poverty information and reduction strategies 261

Overcoming some limitations of the current approach to poverty 263

16 Understanding Economies as Gendered Structures: Examples from Central America / Jasmine Gideon 269

Central American economies as gendered structures 269

Economic reform programmes 279

Gender constraints on well-balanced development 281

Trade-off between increasing exports and promotion of food security 287.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1842770608

1842770616

OCLC:

50292315