Roundtable

Women in the Workforce: Moving the dialogue from Centre to States

2024-11-13

Roundtable

Designing Schemes to Promote Women-led Development that are Efficient, Impactful and Fiscally Responsible: Experience from Indian States

2024-03-22

Explaining Gender Differences in Economic Outcomes in Burkina Faso

2024-08-21

Economic Policies for Women-Led
Development (EPWD)

The goal of EPWD is to mainstream gender into macroeconomic policy making. Economic issues around gender have mostly been viewed with a micro-lens to it. The goal is to broaden the horizon from the micro to the macro and integrate gender policies around fiscal, monetary, labour, and financial indicators.

Economic Policies for Women-Led
Development (EPWD)

About the Network

EPWD, a joint initiative of ICRIER, UNDP India and the Gates Foundation, is a network dedicated to advancing Women-led Development. The objective of the network is to enable the positioning of gender as a macro-critical issue, imperative for India’s economic growth.

We aim to mainstream gender into macroeconomic discussions, by collating actionable policies and best practices that can be fed into a longer-term vision for an inclusive growth story of the Indian economy.

Information Repository

Blog

Policy Brief

Data Insights

Best Practices

Focus Area

Fiscal

Multi-pronged approaches for gender mainstreaming public policy tools such as budgetary outlays and tax incentives

Financial

Understanding the channels through which gender can be mainstreamed into the financial and monetary policy-making process in India, and innovative solutions that enable women’s access to bank accounts, credit and wealth creation.

Trade

Policy measures to boost women’s participation in cross-border goods and services trade, assimilate women-owned enterprises into global value chains and enhance female workforce in trade-oriented sectors

Digital

Evaluation of policies and actions that can bridge digital gender divides, to enable women’s economic participation and societal inclusivity

Labour

Government policies and programs as well as innovative actions by all players in the ecosystem, which can address barriers and promote women’s employment and entrepreneurship

Cultural

Policy tools to address long-standing patriarchal norms that hinder women’s economic empowerment, especially those related to care work and domestic responsibilities

In The News

Sep, 2023

Digital Infrastructure is aiding women too unevenly

Author(s): Dr. Cledwyn Fernandez , Mr. Havishaye Puri

Jun, 2023

ICRIER report outlines plan for gender-sensitive land ports in India

Author(s): The Economic Times Editorial

Mar, 2023

Delhi women earn 40% more than those in Mumbai, Kolkata. But very few are working.

Author(s): Dr. Cledwyn Fernandez , Mr. Havishaye Puri

Roundtable

Roundtable

Explaining Gender Differences in Economic Outcomes in Burkina Faso

Economic Policies for Women-Led
Development (EPWD)

Economic Policies for Women-Led
Development (EPWD)

About the Network

Information Repository