Partnering with ministries of finance and tax administrations to strengthen budgeting, taxation, and debt management, for fiscal policy to deliver gender equality.
Supporting governments to design, cost and expand comprehensive care systems, from childcare to eldercare to disability services, repositioning care as economic and social infrastructure.
Strengthening economic policies and private-sector practices so women gain equal access to decent jobs, finance, and assets, and so women-led enterprises can grow.
Across 85 developing countries, rising debt repayment costs disproportionately reduce women’s employment, shrink their income, and increase maternal mortality, while men’s outcomes remain largely unchanged. The study shows that how governments manage debt matters more than the size of the debt itself.
