January 26, 2012 - The multiple crises – the financial crash, hunger, climate change and resource scarcity – demonstrate emphatically that neoliberal market globalization cannot fulfill its promises: namely to bring about the optimal allocation of resources on the entire planet and thus be a win-win game for all. Christa Wichterich more»

Needed: A True World Bank Development Report on Gender Equality

- March 21, 2011 - It is certainly laudable that gender equality gets the serious consideration it deserves in the current international development discourse, and having a WDR exclusively focused on gender equality gives it yet another ‘stamp of approval’ of being an intrinsic development issue. Too bad, that the World Bank is not using this occasion to accompany the academic exercise internally with a serious reflection and reconsideration of the Bank’s own understanding of and approach to gender equality. Liane Schalatek more»

Women's Leadership: Pressing for Real Change in Finance and Sustainable Development

- October 22, 2010 - On October 22, Nancy Alexander spoke at the Global Capital Forum of the Korean Women's Development Institute about the importance of women's leadership in achieving sustainable development.  Her paper appears here. Nancy Alexander more»

More than an Add-on: the Centrality of Gender Equality for Development and Climate Solutions

- October 21, 2010 - Gender equality is highlighted as a special theme in the ongoing 16th round of replenishment talks for the World Bank Group’s International Development Association (IDA 16).   A discussion about gender equality at the World Bank group is not new. Since 2001, the World Bank has had an official gender mainstreaming strategy.  Yet there are some structural weaknesses in the way the World Bank addresses gender considerations that need to be overcome in order for IDA 16 to be able to contribute to gender-equitable development in the poorest developing countries.  Liane Schalatek more»

Gender, Macroeconomics and the International Financial Institutions

- In August 2007, the Heinrich Böll Foundation brought some 65 women and men from 37 countries to Washington, D.C. for our 5th international Summer School on Engendering Economics in a Globalizing World. more»

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