The global financial crisis that began in 2008 has resulted in the widespread destruction of jobs and livelihoods. Among the factors that precipitated the crisis, growing inequality both within and between countries contributed to low levels of aggregate demand and the reliance of low-income households on unsustainable borrowing to maintain living standards. The crisis provides the opportunity to rethink macroeconomic policy, and for feminist economists to advance proposals that promote jobs, economic security, and equality by class, gender, and ethnicity. Reviving the global economy will require policies that focus heavily on job creation, putting money into the hands of low- and middle-income households.

This paper examines the ways in which poverty and gender inequality impact maternal mortality by creating barriers to maternal healthcare access and utilization. It also analyzes strategies designed to increase utilization to identify best practices. This paper argues that in order to sustainably reduce MMR and improve the overall life chances of poor mothers, policy and programs need, as a matter of urgency, to address two interrelated, root causes ofmaternal death: poverty, which creates the conditions for inadequate, inaccessible and costly maternal health services in poor and underserved areas, and gender norms that tend to privilege the well-being ofmen and boys at the expense of women and girls, leading to women's lack of economic options and lack of autonomy. The paper reviews evidence that suggests such actions can reduce MMR by increasing acceptability and use of maternal healthcare services, thereby increasing the number ofmothers who receive antenatal and postnatal care and reducing the number of unattended births.

Stemming girls’ chronic poverty

 

Catalysing development change by building just social institutions

 

This report is a resource for all who seek transformative and lasting progress in eradicating chronic poverty, and it will be of real value in getting the social dynamics of poverty better understood. Adolescent girls are usually invisible in development programmes, even those designed specifically for youth and women. By ignoring the social dynamics, which systematically undermine girls’ ambition and agency, we are missing a huge opportunity to solve poverty before it reaches the next generation. The report explains how social norms, beliefs and institutional barriers rob girls and young women of their potential. It provides an evidence-based analysis of why teenage girls’ vulnerabilities in relation to poverty are different to those of boys and to those of adult women.

The Guide aims at presenting good practices and providing tools on how to shape gender-sensitive labour migration processes. Through this Guide, the aim is to encourage states, particularly those in the OSCE area, to include gender-sensitive measures in their labour migration policies. It has been prepared in particular for use by policymakers and practitioners. In so doing, it is hoped that labour migration policies will be developed in a more gender-just way in accordance with OSCE participating States' common commitments and values. The Guide focuses on the fact that female migrant workers often experience different disadvantages in comparison to men at all stages of the migration process, due to their status, to the nature of the employment sector and type of educational requirements as well as stereotyped roles of men and women. The lack of policies addressing female migrant workers' specific needs, limited legal channels for female migrant workers, and/or their exclusion from labour legislation make them particularly vulnerable to discrimination and exploitation, and in the worst case, fall victims to human trafficking.