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  2007 Federal Budget Overview: Not a Budget for Women

  2007

  Who benefits most from Canada's 2007 Federal Budget? According to this report, it is high earning men with a stay-at-home partner or wife. The report shows how women in Canada are affected differently than men by tax and spending policies of governments as a result of their varying labour market opportunities, family and community responsibilities, and levels of economic security.
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  A Report on Gender at the Heart of Economic Policy Process: A Focus on the Budget (Workshop 25 ?27 March, 2004)

  British Council, 2004

  Ethiopia is one of the poorest countries in the world. Although general poverty indicators are available, there is a severe shortage of gender-desegregated economic data and indicators. It is therefore very difficult to understand how poverty affects women differentially from men.
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  Summary Report of the Joint Meeting of the Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE) and the OECD-DAC Network on Gender Equality: Aid Modalities and the Promotion of Gender Equality

  DAC Network on Gender Equality, 2006

  What are the implications of the new aid modalities for gender equality and the empowerment of women? What needs to be done to keep commitments to gender equality on track?
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  Budgeting for women’s rights: monitoring government budgets for compliance with CEDAW

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2006

  This report adds a landmark to the discourse on the link between human rights standards and government budgets. It elaborates on how budgets and budget policy making processes can be monitored for compliance with human rights standards, in particular with the Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
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  Gender Issues and Concerns in Financing for Development

  2004

  This background paper uses a gendered approach to examine the development financing strategies endorsed in the 2002 Monterrey Consensus document. The analysis points out that little recognition is given to the social costs and adverse consequences of the market-liberalization policies underlying much of the International Conference on Financing for Development (ICFfD) recommended actions.
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  Notes on the gender perspective in financing for development and the Monterrey consensus

  United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, 2004

  Since 2000, the international community has reached three fundamental agreements on financing for development: the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); the IV Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO), better known as the Doha Round (2001); and the Final Declaration of the International Conference on Financing for Development (ICFfD), know as the Monterrey Consensus (2002).
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  Why Should we Care about Unpaid Care Work?

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2004

  The failure of macroeconomic policies to acknowledge unpaid care work - such as housework, cooking, and caring for children, older people, and sick or disabled people - has a significant impact on women's lives. How can we ensure that unpaid care work is visible and accounted for in macro- and micro-level policy-making?
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  Report on Gender Budget Analysis of Taxation in Uganda, Focusing on Central Government Taxation carried out by Uganda Revenue Authority (URA)

  BRIDGE, 2003

  While most work on gender-sensitive budgets focuses on expenditure, this FOWODE study in Uganda demonstrates the importance of a gendered tax policy impact assessment and evaluation. Any examination of government revenue tends to be difficult and often more politically sensitive than a gender analysis of expenditure.
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  Fiscal Policy, Accountability and Voice: the Example of Gender Responsive Budget Initiatives, background paper for the Human Development Report (HDR) 2002

  United Nations Development Programme, 2002

  Processes to bring broader public accountability for fiscal policy in ways that are sensitive to the needs of poor women and men are still in their infancy. Gender responsive budget initiatives (GRBIs) seek to widen governance and accountability structures by bringing women's voices to discussions on public spending, revenue-raising and debt.
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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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