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    Brief 6: The Impact of the Crisis on Women in Eastern Europe

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2010
    In all countries in Eastern Europe, poverty is highest among children and youth. Young women and men are the hardest hit due to the privatisation of education, housing, and flexibilisation of labour markets. A new category of the working poor has emerged: those barely surviving and with no chance of accumulating savings for future pensions.
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    Brief 5: The Impact of the Deepening Economic Crisis on Women and Gender Equality in Western Europe

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2010
    While the global economic crisis has hit all Western European countries, it has taken different forms with diverse ‘recovery’ programmes leading to differing impacts on women and gender roles.
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    Brief 4: Impacts of the Global Economic and Financial Crisis on Women in Central Asia

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2010
    The negative trends of the global economic and financial crisis remained in Central Asia throughout 2010. This policy brief reviews the impacts of the crisis on women including rising unemployment, migration, wage discrimination and lack of basic social protection in the female-intensive garment industry. There are examples from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan.
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    Impacts of the global crisis on women in developing Asia

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2010
    Policy-makers in Asia tend to see the global recession as a mere blip in a process of continuing and dynamic economic growth.
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    Brief 1: The Impact of the Crisis on Women in Latin America

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2010
    What is the visible impact of the systematic crisis we are experiencing on the situation of women in the region through a Latin American perspective? This brief paper analyses the signs of recovery in several countries in the Latin American region while pointing out the gaps in the formal labour market indicators that evidence the unequal economic prospects for women.
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    AWID Think Piece on Fiscal Policy, Women’s Rights and Gender Equality

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2013
    How do fiscal policies have an impact on the enjoyment of human rights and women's rights in particular? This think piece by the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) argues that the human rights framework provides a clear and universally recognised foundation for the design, implementation and monitoring of fiscal and economic policies.
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    Taxing Ghana's informal sector: the experience of women

    Christian Aid, 2011
    This paper uses findings from research carried out by Christian Aid partners to argue that for women in the informal sector in Ghana, the tax system is not accountable, responsive or fair. Women participants in the research reported that they were treated harshly by tax collectors, and that they were not often asked to show records of their accounts.
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    Taxing men and women: why gender is crucial for a fair tax system

    Christian Aid, 2014
    This report from Christian Aid highlights the importance of gender analysis in work on tax justice. It considers three sources of tax revenue: direct taxes, indirect taxes and trade taxes, and explains how women are affected differently than men by each source.
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    Financing for gender equality: reframing and prioritising public expenditures to promote gender equality

    UN Women, 2013
    This policy briefing makes the case for macroeconomic policy frameworks that invest in public services and build economies, rather than those that constrain public budgets. The author argues that investing in growth contributes to gender equality and can also help reduce other inequalities.
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    Increasing financial investment in women and girls through gender responsive budgeting

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2014
    Research for improving policymaking related to non-monetised sectors, such as unpaid care work, is currentIt is difficult to conceive of any public policy to ensure the continued enjoyment of women’s rights that can be carried out without financial resources from the state coffer. This is the argument by the authors of this perspective piece, with particular reference to India.

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