The Debt Crisis Aggravates the Gender Gap in the Countries of the Global South
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The cost of paying the foreign debt is not equally shared between men and women. In the countries of the Global South, the more public money is spent on repaying loans, the worse the effects are for them: they lose more jobs, see their incomes fall more and face greater health risks, as States reduce the scope for investing in other public policies. This is concluded by a new report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), released on…
According to this report, 55 million women's jobs are at risk in the short term in developing countries, with lasting consequences for incomes, public services, and gender inequality. The study, entitled Who Pays the Price? Gender Inequality and Sovereign Debt, is based on […]
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