Financing for development. Challenges from Latin American women

Within the framework of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4), Latindadd presents the report “Financing for Development: Challenges for Latin American Women”, a rigorous analysis that exposes how current fiscal rules, debt systems, and international financing mechanisms perpetuate structural inequalities that disproportionately affect women in Latin America and the Caribbean. The report offers a critical perspective grounded in feminist and intersectional analysis, highlighting gender biases in tax policies, the regressive impact of illicit financial flows, and the commodification of wellbeing driven by the logic of blended finance.

Written by: Verónica Serafini

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This report denounces how regressive tax systems, unjust debt burdens, and market-driven development models deepen gender inequalities across the region. Throughout the document, it examines both explicit and implicit gender biases in tax regimes, the hidden impacts of public-private partnerships and blended finance, and emphasises the urgent need to move towards a new global financial architecture based on tax justice, gender equity, and sustainability. Latindadd calls for a feminist fiscal pact that redistributes wealth, recognises care work, and places life at the heart of economic policy.