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  The Fourth Women's Budget

  1999

  Do women fully benefit from the spending on local government services? This fourth book on the South African Women's Budget Initiative (WBI) examines the budget at the local government level. It examines whether and how services are provided, what spending is prioritised, and the impact of revenue-raising and spending on women, men, girls and boys in five different municipalities.
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  The Third Women's Budget

  1998

  This is the third book on the South African Women's Budget Initiative (WBI). In this volume three introductory chapters review the state of flux in the social and political context of South Africa, current budgetary policy, planning and reform processes, further developments in the gender machinery, and developments in the Women's Budget Inititative itself.
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  The Second Women's Budget

  1997

  In this second book on the South African Women's Budget Initiative (WBI), new developments in the South African government structure and procedures are highlighted, in particular the establishment of its gender machinery and budget reform processes. The aims and visions of the WBI are introduced and linked to similar activities in other countries.
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  Gender Budgets Make Cents: Understanding Gender Responsive Budgets

  Commonwealth Secretariat, 2002

  How can greater consistency between social commitments and economic goals be achieved? This publication aims to inspire government officials, policy-makers, donor agencies, and civil society groups to engage in gender-responsive budget initiatives by demonstrating both equity and efficiency gains.
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  Gender-neutral, Gender-blind, or Gender-sensitive Budgets? Changing the Conceptual Framework to Include Women's Empowerment and the Economy of Care

  Commonwealth Secretariat, 1999

  Budgets are often assumed to be gender-neutral, whereas in reality they tend to be gender blind - failing to take into account the fact that men and women have different roles, responsibilities and resources in society. This failure leads to further discrimination against and disempowerment of women. One of the major failures of budgets is their neglect of the unpaid 'care economy'.
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  Trade Liberalization: Impacts on African Women

  2001

  Trade liberalisation processes impact differently on men and women due to the fact that men and women have different roles in production. Despite the fact that women are actively involved in international trade, WTO agreements are gender blind and as such have adverse impacts on women.
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  Engendering Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies

  Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 1998

  Until recently, macro-economic policies have largely been seen as gender-neutral. This paper argues, by contrast, that macroeconomic policies are gender-biased in their effects.
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  Gender Budget Initiative: Background Papers

  Commonwealth Secretariat, 1999

  At face value, budgets appear to be gender-neutral policy instruments. In reality, they are gender-blind because they ignore the different roles, responsibilities and capabilities of men and women, hence have a different impact on both groups.
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  Tools for Gender Analysis of the National Budget

  Commonwealth Secretariat, 1999

  Action is required at three levels in order to incorporate gender considerations into public expenditure decisions. Policy tools should be applied, gender-disaggregated data must be used, and dialogue needs to be strengthened. This set of technical tools aims to meet the first level and assist in gender- sensitisation of the national budgetary process.
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  Gender Budget Initiative: A Commonwealth Initiative to Integrate Gender into National Budgetary Processes

  Commonwealth Secretariat, 1999

  It is good economic sense to make national budgets gender-sensitive, as this will enable more effective targeting of government expenditure to specific sectors of the population, and reduce inequitable consequences of previous fiscal policies.

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