Engendering development strategies and macroeconomic policies: What's Sound and Sensible?

This paper takes stock of the project on engendering macroeconomic theory and policies. We present an overview of feminist arguments and methodologies by focusing on the feminist critiques of neoliberal policies, key debates on conceptualization and measurement of wellbeing, methodologies for gender-aware analysis and the empirical evidence on gendered effects of development strategies and their component policies. We examine the gendered impacts of neoliberal reforms by using two approaches: a country case-study approach and a specific reform-focused evaluation of the theoretical predictions and empirical evidence.