Accounting for Gender Production from a Growth Accounting Framework in Sub-Saharan Africa

Fofack, Hippolyte

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: ACTUAL GROWTH;    ADVERSE EFFECTS;    AGGREGATE OUTPUT;    AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION;    ALLOCATIVE EFFICIENCY;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-6153
RP-ID  :  WPS6153

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This paper draws on an expanded growthaccounting framework to estimate the relative contributionof women to growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. Empirical resultsshow a consistently positive contribution of women to growthin gross domestic product in the region, both duringeconomic downturns and growth spurts. This is despite theabsence of any valuation of home-produced goods and informalsector production, which accounts for the bulk of womensproduction, in national product and income accounts.Women's positive contribution is largely attributed totheir increased rates of labor force participation in wageemployment and the reduction in the gender gap in educationin recent years.