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  Gender and Budgets Cutting Edge Pack (CEP)

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  Everyone who has struggled to mainstream gender into public policy recognises that programmed action without money attached amounts to inaction. While government budgets allocate resources in ways that perpetuate gender biases, budgets also offer the potential to transform gender inequalities.
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  Gender Budget Initiatives: Strategies, Concepts and Experiences

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2002

  This publication contains papers from a high level international conference 'Strengthening Economic and Financial Governance through Gender Responsive Budgeting' held in Brussels in October 2001.
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  Customs and Excise

  2000

  How have women fared under trade liberalisation as workers, traders and consumers? This paper from the fifth year of the Women's Budget Initiative in South Africa, tackles customs and excise as a new area of gender budget analysis. It argues that South African women suffer from trade liberalisation (i. e.
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  Women and local government

  Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1996

  How can municipalities address their financial difficulties yet not overburden the poor, particularly poor women? This paper, one of a collection of four papers from the fifth year of the Women's Budget Initiative in South Africa, stresses that local government must have enough money to deliver what they are meant to deliver.
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  Women and Tax in South Africa

  2000

  What is the tax toll on women? Can taxation policy reduce income and wealth inequalities between women and men in South Africa? This paper, one of a collection of four papers from the fifth year of the South African Women's Budget Initiative, argues that the way in which the tax burden is distributed affects the welfare of individuals and households.
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  An Introduction to the Fifth Women's Budget

  2000

  Where are the boundaries of the developing field of gender budget analysis? This introduction paper to the fifth South African Women's Budget answers the question ?why look at revenue?' in terms of taxation, local government, and customs and excise.
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  Gender Sensitive Budgets, Concepts and Key Elements

  BRIDGE, 2002

  This handbook drawn up for the Mexican Ministry of Health provides information for policy-makers on how to implement a gender perspective within the National Programme of Health. The risk of disease, access to healthcare, and quality of services are all influenced by gender inequalities.
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  Making Visible the Hidden Economy: the Case for Gender-impact Analysis of Economic Policy

  BRIDGE, 2002

  Although economic policy is targeted at the paid economy, it has unintended yet significant impacts on the unpaid care economy. This paper explores the UK's Working Families Tax Credit (WFTC) which aims to help people make the transition from welfare to paid work.
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  The Gender Budget 1998/99

  Forum for Women in Democracy, 1998

  What does gender analysis of a budget look like? FOWODE in Uganda has completed the first phase of its Gender Budget Project, which examines the differential impact of Uganda's budget on women and men, girls and boys. This book is an account of this first phase, which concentrates on an analysis of the 1998/1999 budget in three sectors - agriculture, education and health.
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  Gendered Budget Work in the Americas: Selected Country Experiences

  University of Texas, 2002

  Integrating gender into budgetary debate can yield better information and analysis of a budget's impacts. It can also serve as a tool to advocate for more equitable public policies. Researchers and advocates in Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Chile have attempted to influence the debate around policy priorities and to assess the impact of government spending on women and girls, men and boys.

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