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  The Millennium Development Goals A Feminist Development Economics Perspective

  2004

  Why is it important to analyse the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Progress Reports through a gender lens? What can feminist economics tell us about how to make progress on gender equality through the MDGs? MDG 3, to Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women, has as its target the elimination of gender disparity in education.
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  BRIDGE Cutting Edge Pack: gender and budgets

  BRIDGE, 2003

  This Cutting Edge pack from BRIDGE outlines the concept and practices of gender-responsive budgetting, and examines strategies for improvement. The pack highlights the deficiencies of non-gender responsive budgeting, such as assuming that economic actors are genderless, classless, ageless, and without social , historical, and geographic situation.
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  Expectations versus realities in gender-responsive budget initiatives

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005

  This paper addresses the question of how well gender-responsive budget (GRB) initiatives have done in practice compared with the claims and expectations about what they can achieve?
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  Structural Adjustment's Gendered Impacts: the Case of Serbia and Montenegro

  Gender Action, 2004

  Strucutral Adjustment Lending (SAL) has had many harmful affects on the people of Serbia and Montenegro and has particular implications for work on gender equality. Public expenditure cutbacks including in the social sectors of health, education and social protection have adverse effects on women due to their caring roles and their lack of opportunities for education and employment.
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  Evaluation of DFID Development Assistance: Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, Phase II Thematic Evaluation: Enabling Environment for Growth and Investment

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  Economic growth does not always reduce poverty. It must be linked to policies which promote equality of opportunities and access to markets. Studies have shown that gender inequality causes poor productivity and slows economic growth.
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  Developing Gender Statistics in the UK

  Radical Statistics Group, 2000

  This article provides an overview of the concept of gender statistics and innovations in compilation. It begins with a definition of the term 'gender statistics', understood not only as a shorthand to refer to statistics relating to people or activities with a significant gender dimension, but to cover those areas where the gender dimension may be hidden, such as unpaid cleaning or care work.
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  Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Databank

  Network of Women Parliamentarians of the Americas, 2004

  This bibliography presents key resources and case studies on the impact of trade liberalisation policies on women, with special attention to the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). It includes general concepts, glossaries, theoretical works and declarations, as well as resources on the main trade agreements affecting the Americas.
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  The economic advancement of women in Jordan: a country gender assessment

  World Bank, 2005

  Over the past decades, Jordan has achieved impressive results on a host of social indicators, including the bridging of gender gaps in education. Yet, women's participation in the economic sphere has not kept pace with these impressive gains, mainly due to a host of barriers that women face in accessing opportunities in the public sphere.
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  Gender Differences in the Transitional Economy of Viet Nam

  United Nations Development Programme, 2002

  This report provides an analysis of gender differences in Viet Nam in the context of the economic transition to a market economy. It analyses data taken from the 1997-98 Viet Nam Living Standards Survey in the light of gender inequalities in household structures, living standards, income, education and health and poverty.
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  Wage Discrimination by Gender in Morocco's Urban Labour Force: Evidence and Implications for Industrial and Labour Policy (Chapter in Women's Employment in the Textile Manufacturing Sectors of Bangladesh and Morocco)

  2002

  Gender-based wage discrimination is linked to trade performance and competitiveness. This paper argues that the low-wage export strategy based on female labour needs to be rethought if Morocco is to maintain its share of textile exports in the global economy.

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