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GENDER INEQUALITY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: A CRITICAL REVIEW
Author(s) -
Cuberes David,
Teignier Marc
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.2983
Subject(s) - inequality , perspective (graphical) , gender inequality , positive economics , economics , affect (linguistics) , work (physics) , connection (principal bundle) , sociology , econometrics , mathematics , geometry , communication , engineering , mechanical engineering , mathematical analysis
The link between gender inequality and economic growth is a topic that is of growing interest, both in the academic literature and the policy arena. In this paper, we survey the literature that analyses this relationship from a macroeconomic perspective. We argue that that the existing theories provide a wide range of mechanisms through which these two variables may affect each other but also that more work needs to be carried out to obtain quantitative predictions out of these models. In the empirical arena, we note the lack of connection between most studies and the existing theories described earlier. In both cases, we propose approaches to alleviate these problems. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.