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| Title: | Globalization and Gender Inequality: Is Africa Different? |
| Author: | Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Periodical: | Journal of African Economies |
| Volume: | 16 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Period: | March |
| Pages: | 301-348 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Subsaharan Africa world Africa |
| Subjects: | gender inequality trade policy globalization Development and Technology Economics and Trade Women's Issues Law, Human Rights and Violence Law, Legal Issues, and Human Rights Equality and Liberation economics |
| External link: | https://jae.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/2/301.full.pdf |
| Abstract: | Using cross-sectional data (5-year averages for the periods 1990-1994 and 1995-1999), ordinary least-squares and three-stage least-squares estimations, this paper examines the effects of globalization and growth on gender inequality (particularly inequality in literacy) and investigates whether the effects are homogenous across developing countries. In particular, it explores whether the effects of increased trade openness and growth on gender inequality in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are different from those in other developing countries. The empirical evidence indicates that globalization and growth seem to have no effect on gender equality in non-SSA developing countries. However, the paper finds overwhelming statistical evidence that higher integration in world markets and growth cause gender inequality in SSA to increase. The paper's findings suggest that it is extremely important that socioeconomic policies that promote the welfare of women (and, in particular, enhance female literacy) accompany trade reforms and growth-promoting policies. App., bibliogr. notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |
