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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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  Budgeting for Equity: Gender Budget Initiatives within a Framework of Performance Oriented Budgeting

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2003

  Can performance-oriented budgeting serve as a framework for making budgets more gender responsive? This question is set in the context of recent public sector reforms to make public expenditure more 'results based' as part of the 'good governance' agenda.
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  Gender Budgets: What's in it for NGOs?

  BRIDGE, 2002

  Over the last seven years, there has been increasing interest in gender budget work worldwide. There are, however, big differences between the initiatives in different countries. In particular, in some cases the initiatives have been located inside government; in other cases in Parliament; and in yet others within civil society.
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  Trafficking of Women for Sexual Exploitation: A Gender-Based and Well-Founded Fear?

  United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2003

  Trafficked women suffer major human rights abuses. However, European governments are primarily concerned with cutting the number of migrants and refugees to pander to popular racist sentiments. The human rights of those trafficked are not of concern to these governments.
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  How to Make the Law Work? Budgetary Implications of Domestic Violence Policies in Latin America

  2003

  How can domestic violence be reduced in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)? This synthesis research paper demonstrates that to make domestic violence policy work there needs to be sufficient budgetary allocations to enable the laws enacted in these countries to translate into action.
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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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  BRIDGE Report 56: Gender and Development: Facts and Figures

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2000

  What evidence is there of gender inequalities in life outcomes between women and men? This report provides facts and figures that expose gender inequalities, providing evidence of the need to engender development.
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  An Analysis of the WTO-AOA Review from the Perspective of Rural Women in Asia

  2003

  How does the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Agreement on Agriculture (AOA) affect the livelihoods of rural women in Asia? This paper, prepared on the occasion of the WTO-AOA review in 2003, analyzes the impact of the new trading rules imposed by the WTO on Asian peasants.
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  A Strategic Approach to Gender, Trade Agreements and Trade Policy

  2003

  It is often claimed that trade agreements, policies and liberalisation processes are gender and class neutral. However gender biases in the division of labour, in access to economic resources and in socially prescribed roles, usually impact women more negatively than men.

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