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Videos: Gender and Growth Gaps in Sub-Saharan Africa
View the session recordings from the June 13, 2024 research and policy workshop that spotlighted current policy needs and research insights on the drivers and consequences of gender gaps in the economy in twenty-first century sub-Saharan Africa.
Opening Address and Keynote Dialogue
Growth with DEPTH and gender inequality in Africa
- Mavis Owusu-Gyamfi (African Center for Economic Transformation)
Keynote Dialogue
Gender gaps in labor markets in sub-Saharan Africa
Featuring senior policymakers, an in-person keynote dialogue addressed the importance of closing gender gaps in labor markets in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Hon. Nana Oye Bampoe Addo (former Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Government of Ghana)
- Hon. Williametta Saydee-Tarr (former Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Government of Liberia)
Session 1: Macroeconomic Growth Strategies and Gender Gaps in Labor Markets
Gender and Growth gaps characteristics, drivers and consequences
- Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan (Yale Economic Growth Center)
Gendering structural change and green transition in Africa: Implications of transformative policies
- Elvis Korku Avenyo (University of Johannesburg)
Panel discussion
- Maria José Moreno Ruiz (African Development Bank Group)
- Priscilla Twumasi Baffour (University of Ghana)
- Bola Akanji (Quinnipiac University and African Center for Economic Transformation)
- Moderator: Elvis Korku Avenyo (University of Johannesburg)
Session 2: Gender and Power: From the Household to Institutional Structures
Gender inequalities, power, and patriarchy in sub-Saharan Africa
- Odile Mackett (University of South Africa)
Measuring women's empowerment within the household and in communities: some evidence and some new ideas
- Orazio Attanasio (Yale University)
Panel discussion
- Hon. Williametta Saydee-Tarr (former Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Government of Liberia)
- Gifty Volimkarime (Centre for Entrepreneurship and Evaluation Development)
- Akosua Darkwah (University of Ghana)
- Fayudatu Yakubu (Lively Minds)
- Moderator: Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan (Yale Economic Growth Center)
Session 3: The Rise of the Digital Economy
Gendered financial inclusion through fintech services for economic transformation: The case of Nigeria and Ghana
- Iyabo Olanrele (Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research)
The employment effects of mobile internet in developing countries
- Gaurav Chiplunkar (Darden School of Business, University of Virginia)
Panel discussion
- Chris Ssali (MTN Lonestar, Liberia)
- Roselyn Adadzewa Otoo (Retail Finance Distribution (ReFinD) Research Initiative, University of Ghana)
- Chioma Agogo (M-KOPA, Ghana)
- Maty Konte (International Finance Corporation, World Bank)
- Moderator: Iyabo Olanrele (Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research)