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The Inter-American Development Bank is committed to gender equality as an important objective of development. Women and men, as the IDB recognizes, may benefit differently and unevenly from development processes, policies and investments that are intended to enhance opportunities and country performance. Redressing gender inequality and ensuring balanced capabilities, access to services, productive assets and resources, participation in decision-making, and enjoyment of civil, legal and political rights are objectives of development in themselves. They are also critical to the pursuit of sustainable economic growth and the reduction of poverty.