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    HIV Positive Women, Poverty and Gender Inequality, ICW vision paper 3

    2004
    Gender inequality and poverty not only increase the risk of HIV but also leave women more vulnerable than men to its impact. An HIV positive diagnosis compounds the problems women face in finding and keeping work. Many women, including HIV positive women, work in the informal sector.
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    Gender bias and central bank policy: employment and inflation reduction

    The International Working Group on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics, 2006
    Do shifting inflation rates have different impacts on men and women in employment? And how might maintaining competitive exchange rates counter-balance any negative impacts of inflation?
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    Improving women's lives: World Bank actions since Beijing

    World Bank, 2006
    The World Bank is committed to helping member countries fulfil the Beijing Platform for Action and recognises that gender equality is critical to development and poverty reduction. The World Bank's emphasis on gender increased after the 1995 Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women.
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    Financial Law Project 2006. Gender Report

    Ministry of Finance and Privatization, Morocco, 2005
    In Morocco, the introduction of a Gender Report annexed to the 2006 Economic and Financial Report is one of the outcomes of the budget reform, which is moving towards a results-oriented and gender-sensitive management of public funds.
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    Moving Ahead: Gender budgeting in Sweden

    Ministry of Industry Employment and Communications, Sweden, 2006
    In 2004, the Swedish government launched a five-year Plan for Gender Mainstreaming in government offices, setting objectives in four main areas: management and control, methods and procedures, training, and co-ordination.
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    Delivering as one: report of the Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel

    United Nations General Assembly, 2006
    In February 2006, the former United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, established a High-Level Panel consisting of fifteen members to examine how to strengthen the UN system in the areas of development, humanitarian assistance and the environment.
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    Women's Perspectives on Globalisation: Critical Approaches

    Karthala, 2006
    This collection of articles aims to provide the francophone public with a critical feminist perspective on the policies and practices of development cooperation among international institutions such as the United Nations, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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    Promoting gender equality in new aid modalities and partnerships

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2006
    As efforts intensify to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, developed and developing countries have committed themselves to new partnerships and aid modalities.
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    Swept under the rug: abuses against domestic workers around the world

    Human Rights Watch, 2006
    Women and girls make up the overwhelming majority of domestic workers around the world. In recent years, abuses against domestic workers - typically taking place in private homes and hidden from the public eye - have garnered increased attention. But this has not been matched by concerted government action.
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    The "skills drain" of health professionals from the developing world: a framework for policy formulation

    Medact, 2005
    Many health workers, particularly women nurses, migrate from the South to the North to work in the health systems of wealthy countries. The result is a perverse subsidy from South to North, with Southern countries supporting the training of health workers and Northern countries benefiting from their services without contributing to the costs of building their skills.

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