Competing Architectures, Converging Standards? Gender Safeguards among Multilateral Development Banks in Asia

• In Event: Regional and Global Development Financing

Brief Overview

Comparing gender safeguards among MDBs in Asia, this paper uses the World Bank as a benchmark to argue that geopolitics and institutional history drive divergence from global standards in development finance and norm diffusion.

Author

• Xiaoye She, California State University, San Marcos