Caren Grown

Caren Grown is a Senior Fellow in the Center for Sustainable Development, Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution. From 2014-2021, she served as global director for gender at the World Bank Group and as senior technical advisor in the Macroeconomics, Trade, and Investment Global Practice until 2022.

Publications

Partner Publication

Fiscal politics: The missing link between fiscal policy and gender equality

November 2025
Caren Grown & Giulia Mascagni
Policy Brief

Towards Gender Equality in Tax and Fiscal Systems: Moving Beyond the Implicit-Explicit Bias Framework

March 2024
Caren Grown & Giulia Mascagni
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Blogs

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March 2025|
Blog

Time for a broader, bolder approach to tax justice for women

by Giulia Mascagni, Caren Grown & Rhiannon McCluskey

As policymakers gather to discuss gender and tax at the UN today, this blog draws on research to call for moving beyond a narrow focus on gender bias in tax policy toward a broader, more effective feminist fiscal approach to advance gender equality. …

News and events

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News
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March 2025
How ICTD research is shifting the debate on gender and tax

According to the World Economic Forum, it will take until 2158 to reach full gender parity at the…
Event
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3 December 2024
Building More Effective and Equitable Tax Systems: Priorities and Strategies for FfD4

The ICTD will be hosting a side event at the Second Preparatory Committee Session of the Financing for Development Conference….
News
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June 2024
ICTD launches new Community of Practice for research and policy on Gender and Tax

A new Community of Practice on research and policy in Gender and Tax (CoPGT), whose secretariat…