TY  - SER
AU  - Duvvury, Nata
AU  - Callan, Aoife
AU  - Carney, Patricia
AU  - Raghavendra, Srinivas
TI  - Intimate partner violence : : economic costs and implications for growth and development
T2  - Women's Voice, Agency, & Participation Research Series
PY  - 2013///
PB  - World Bank, 
KW  - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
KW  - ECONOMIC ASPECTS
KW  - ECONOMICS
KW  - INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
KW  - VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
KW  - WOMEN
KW  - ECONOMIC COSTS
N1  - Women's Voice, Agency, & Participation Research Series, 2013, no.3
N2  - Note: This paper was commissioned by the World Bank Group to help inform a forthcoming report (due Spring 2014) on women’s voice, agency, and participation. It does not necessarily reflect the views and research of the World Bank Group. Feedback and comments are welcome at: genderandagency@worldbank.org. More details about the report are available via the website link. See also the link to the World Bank's media release (25/11/2013).
"Violence against women, recognized globally as a fundamental human rights violation, is widely prevalent across high-, middle- and low–income countries. Violence against women has significant economic costs in terms of expenditures on service provision, lost income for women and their families, decreased productivity, and negative impacts on future human
capital formation. The paper makes a major contribution to the discussion of economic implications of intimate partner violence (IPV) through its conceptual mapping of the links between IPV and economic growth based on a review of literature on their complex dynamics.
It reviews costing methodologies and identifies types of costs that potentially can be estimated given different degrees of data availability. The paper argues strongly for a focus on
estimating impacts on productivity, a key driver of economic growth. Based on data from Vietnam, the empirical estimation of IPV-related absenteeism on GDP suggests that this impact is significant—out-of-pocket expenditure, missed income, and productivity loss together total about 3 percent of GDP, or nearly double Government spending on primary education.
It also calls for committed action by both national governments and The World Bank Group
in terms of integrating IPV and violence against women and girls (VAWG) into national and
sectoral development plans and Bank funding streams; strengthening national statistics offices
to collect, manage, and analyze data on violence systematically and regularly; prioritizing
multi-sectoral and inter-ministerial responses; and most importantly establishing a dedicated
budget or funding stream for IPV and VAWG policies, programs, and interventions." (Abstract)
UR  - http://www.worldbank.org/content/dam/Worldbank/document/Gender/Duvvury%20et%20al.%202013%20Intimate%20Partner%20Violence.%20Economic%20costs%20and%20implications%20for%20growth%20and%20development%20VAP%20No.3%20Nov%202013.pdf
UR  - http://www.worldbank.org/gender/agency
UR  - http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2013/11/25/violence-against-women-exacts-high-economic-price-world-bank-says
ER  -