Gender equality seems to have lost its resonance in recent discourses on development. Lessons from experiences in implementing the Millennium Development Goals show that countries can experience different levels of economic growth but still suffer from massive social and economic inequalities. This post recommends that it is time to pause and include gender equality as a cross-cutting theme and an anchor of development agendas if we are to attain balanced development outcomes.
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