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Gender Budgets: What's in it for NGOs?
BRIDGE, 2002Over 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.DocumentGender Impacts of Government Revenue Collection: The Case of Taxation
Commonwealth Secretariat, 2004Are 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.DocumentInternational Gender and Trade Network: WTO Fifth Ministerial Meeting, Cancun, Mexico, September 10-14th, 2003 (Position Papers on Four WTO Issues)
2003The IGTN Advocacy Document for the 5th WTO Ministerial Meeting that was held in Cancun, Mexico in September 2003 focuses on these four issues and identifies critical advocacy positions for each of them.DocumentShifting Spaces: Women, Citizenship and Migration within the European Union
Polity Press, 1998This book is based on a research project examining the gender dimensions of internal migration in the European Union (EU). The impact of EU membership on the citizenship experience of female EU nationals as they migrate from one member country to another is explored.DocumentGender Analysis of Budgets as a Tool for Achieving Gender Equality in the Arab World
2002How can budgets become more gender-sensitive in the Arab region? This newsletter from the Economic Research Forum(ERF) highlights existing policy relevant research to assist governments, organisations and researchers to track, monitor and evaluate national and local public budgets from a gender and poverty perspective.DocumentGender Budgets and Beyond: Feminist Fiscal Policy in the Context of Globalisation
BRIDGE, 2003This article is part of a special issue of Oxfam's Gender and Development journal entitled Women Reinventing Globalisation, bringing together insights drawn from the Ninth International Forum of the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID). It focuses on the gender-blindness of macro-economic and fiscal policies.DocumentGender profile: Peru
Canadian International Development Agency, 2002What is the condition of women in Peru? This gender profile by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) offers a statistical overview of the condition of urban and rural women with respect to unemployment, status in the workplace, life expectancy and working and living conditions. Poverty is an ongoing concern and half the population continues to subsist below the poverty line.DocumentCEDAW Combined Fourth and Fifth Periodic Reports of States Parties: Egypt
United Nations, 2000This submission by the government of Egypt to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) combines the fourth and fifth periodic reports, covering the period 1994 to 1998. It highlights the important role women have played in the country's development processes.DocumentSocial Policy in an Era of Trade Intensification: A Perspective from Asian Women
Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, 2002This is the second in a series of three comprehensive economic literacy packets produced by the Asia Network of the International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN). The IGTN aims to engage with the global women's movement to raise awareness of the relationship between gender relations and macroeonomic and trade polices.DocumentUnited Nations Development fund for Women (UNIFEM) contribution to the World Bank and IMF PRSP preview
World Bank, 2001The following feedback from UNIFEM on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) review is based on assessments done by non-governmental organisations, consultants and national women’s machineries in countries with both interim and full PRSPs.Areas of concern include:one of the key areas where there is a singular lack of gender dimension in the PRSPs is that of data collection to inforPages
