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The Gender Dividend: Capitalizing on Women's Work

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  • Pagés, Carmen
  • Piras, Claudia

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Efforts to improve growth and employment in Latin America and the Caribbean must focus on women. The reason is simple but powerful: women are driving economic growth in the region. This is true at both the economy-wide (macro) and the household (micro) levels.

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  • Pagés, Carmen & Piras, Claudia, 2010. "The Gender Dividend: Capitalizing on Women's Work," IDB Publications (Books), Inter-American Development Bank, number 450, November.
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