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An argument made on the functions behind institutional financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank are that they support capitalist ideals through their means of economic growth of countries globally and their participation in the global economy and capitalist systems. The roles of banks as institutions and the creation of new workers’ economy reflect neoliberal developing ideals is also present in the criticisms on neoliberal developing institutions.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pradella |first1=Lucia |last2=Marois |first2=Thomas |title=Polarizing Development: Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis |date=2014 |publisher=Pluto Press |isbn=978-0-7453-3470-7 }}{{page needed|date=May 2021}}</ref> Another critique made on the market and institutions is that it contributes to the creation of policies and aid with gender-related outcomes. An argument made on the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is that it creates a neoliberal dominance that continues the construction and reconstruction of gender norms by homogenously category women rather than the gender disparities within its policies.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Shields |first1=Stuart |last2=Wallin |first2=Sara |title=The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's Gender Action Plan and the Gendered Political Economy of Post-Communist Transition |journal=Globalizations |date=4 May 2015 |volume=12 |issue=3 |pages=383–399 |doi=10.1080/14747731.2015.1016307 |s2cid=54179275 |url=http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/85978/9/Shields%20%2526%20Wallin%20Globalisations%20Final%20Draft.pdf }}</ref>
 
=== Gender and Outsourcingoutsourcing ===
One of the features of development encouraged in neoliberal approaches is outsourcing. Outsourcing is when companies from the western world moves some of their business to another country. The reasons these companies make the decision to move is often because of cheap labor costs.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Mullins |first1=Lauren Bock |last2=Saldivar |first2=Karina Moreno |title=Research associating gender and government privatization: Lessons from international literature |journal=Wagadu |date=22 December 2015 |volume=14 |pages=169–187 |id={{Gale|A490822009}} {{ProQuest|1786467988}} |ssrn=3194233 |url=http://sites.cortland.edu/wagadu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2016/02/Special-Issue-Volume-14-7.pdf }}</ref> Although outsourcing is about businesses it is directly related to gender because it has greatly affected women. The reason it is related to gender is that women are mainly the people that are being hired for these cheap labor jobs and why they are being hired.<ref name=Nyeck2015>{{cite journal |last1=Nyeck |first1=S. N. |last2=Benjamin |first2=Orly |title=Women, gender and government outsourcing in comparative perspectives |journal=Wagadu |date=22 December 2015 |volume=14 |pages=1–12 |id={{Gale|A490822003}} {{ProQuest|1786468088}} |url=http://sites.cortland.edu/wagadu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2016/02/Special-Issue-Volume-14-1-1.pdf }}</ref>