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GEC ISS Presentation 0610
GEC ISS Presentation 0610
Channels of transmission
Aid budgets? Government spending? Informal economy Remittances
Trade
Finance
Aug-08 Jun-09 Jun-10 Jan-09 Jan-10 Jan-11
It is okay for a couple of people to open restaurants, or do business in pig dealings, paddy rice husking, mechanical services or construction. But if all migrants return and do the same things, It would be a disaster, as there are no customers. - retail shop owner, Nghe An, Vietnam
Gendered impacts
Transmission Finance
Gender numbers Capital flight Devaluation Confidence Aid FDI
Impact
Credit squeeze Investment Asset prices
Response
Support for banks Loans from IFIs Borrowing Concessions for investors
Gender norms
Economic Sphere
Production
Gender numbers Gender norms
(Export) demand
Subsidies for selected industries Loosening labour laws Unpaid work Informal paid work Social protection
Reproduction
Gender numbers Gender norms
Economic structures
Diversification vs. monodependence; financial integration; domestic resource mobilization; regional vs. global integration; access to natural resources
Social policies
Essential services; social protection; automatic stabilisers
-4.7
-0.5
-1.2
-2.3
-3.4
South Asia
-4.0
Sub-Saharan Africa
-4.7
-6
-5
Expenditure
2010-2008
$-24
-30 -40 $-43 -50 $-53 -60 Fiscal hole (exp. & rev.) Fiscal hole (revenue)
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