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  Gender Impacts of Government Revenue Collection: The Case of Taxation

  Commonwealth Secretariat, 2004

  Are tax systems gender neutral? Assessing taxation and revenue from a gender perspective is no easy task. Political and technical constraints help to explain why most work to date has focused on expenditure. This paper provides information to assist in the analysis of potential gender bias in tax systems and help the design of gender-sensitive revenue measures.
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  International Gender and Trade Network: WTO Fifth Ministerial Meeting, Cancun, Mexico, September 10-14th, 2003 (Position Papers on Four WTO Issues)

  2003

  The IGTN Advocacy Document for the 5th WTO Ministerial Meeting that was held in Cancun, Mexico in September 2003 focuses on these four issues and identifies critical advocacy positions for each of them.
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  Experts Meeting on Gender Mainstreaming of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) in Selected African Countries: Proceedings

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2003

  Through presentations and working groups, participants from governments, civil society and donor agencies explored conceptual issues around gender and poverty, how to engender Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and the extent to which gender-sensitive budget initiatives are integrated into these.
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  Gender Budgets and Beyond: Feminist Fiscal Policy in the Context of Globalisation

  BRIDGE, 2003

  This article is part of a special issue of Oxfam's Gender and Development journal entitled Women Reinventing Globalisation, bringing together insights drawn from the Ninth International Forum of the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID). It focuses on the gender-blindness of macro-economic and fiscal policies.
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  Guidelines for Integrating Gender Analysis into Biodiversity Research

  1998

  How can gender be mainstreamed into programmes concerned with the sustainable use and management of biodiversity? The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) has produced guidelines on how to integrate gender analysis into biodiversity research.
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  BRIDGE Report 67: Gender and PRSPs - with Experiences from Tanzania, Bolivia, Viet Nam and Mozambique

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  How gender-sensitive were the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) processes in Tanzania, Bolivia, Viet Nam and Mozambique? This report finds that the poverty assessments did not provide sufficient gendered information to ensure that the PRSPs were based on a thorough understanding of what drives poverty. The collection and analysis of sex-disaggregated data needs to be prioritised.
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  United Nations Development fund for Women (UNIFEM) contribution to the World Bank and IMF PRSP preview

  World Bank, 2001

  The following feedback from UNIFEM on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) review is based on assessments done by non-governmental organisations, consultants and national women’s machineries in countries with both interim and full PRSPs.Areas of concern include:one of the key areas where there is a singular lack of gender dimension in the PRSPs is that of data collection to infor
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  BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 12: Gender and Budgets

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  Why is progress towards gender equality so slow? In part, this is a failure to attach money to policy commitments. While government budgets allocate resources in ways that perpetuate gender biases, budgets also offer the potential to transform gender inequalities. The first article of this issue of In Brief shows how in recent years gender budget initiatives (GBI) have risen to this challenge.
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  Gender and Budgets: Supporting Resources Collection

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  What lessons can be learned from the implementation of gender budget initiatives (GBIs) across the world? What tools are available to support successful implementation? This collection of resources on gender and budgets seeks to answer these questions.
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  Gender and Budgets Cutting Edge Pack (CEP)

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  Everyone who has struggled to mainstream gender into public policy recognises that programmed action without money attached amounts to inaction. While government budgets allocate resources in ways that perpetuate gender biases, budgets also offer the potential to transform gender inequalities.

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