Women 20 (W20) Indonesia has been striving to encourage G20 leaders to issue a declaration on the importance of gender equality, W20 Indonesia chair Hadriani .
Given the significant role the IMF plays in shaping governments’ macroeconomic policies through providing loans and guidance, an increased focus on gender equality at the Fund is critical. The new gender strategy will help to increase alignment between the Fund’s support to governments and its own research identifying gender equality as macro-critical. The strategy’s implementation offers the opportunity for a more intentional, systematic effort to ensure that IMF lending and advice do not inadvertently exacerbate pre-existing inequalities in member countries and ideally work to narrow them.
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