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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 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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    Accountability to Women in Development Spending - Experiments in Service-delivery Audits at the Local Level

    BRIDGE, 2002
    What matters to consumers of public services is local-level accountability. Local monitoring and auditing is the only way to ensure commitments on paper at the local and national level - particularly in areas of concern to women - are translated into practice.
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    Some Research Gaps in Gender Budget Work from an Advocacy Perspective

    BRIDGE, 2002
    Gender Budget Initiatives can be an important tool for claiming resources, however are they restricted to research and policy papers? This paper takes a look at gender budget work from an advocacy perspective - stating that budgets are nine parts politics and one part information.
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    What's Behind the Budget? Politics, Rights and Accountability in the Budget Process

    Overseas Development Institute, 2002
    Can budget processes be used to claim rights and call governments to account? Who has the power to determine who gets what budget resources? Whilst often considered merely technical tools, budgets are in fact political processes. Starting from this basis, the authors show how a rights-based approach can strengthen pro-poor and gender-sensitive outcomes from public expenditure management.
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    An Introduction to the General Agreement on Trade in Services for Gender Advocates

    2001
    This short piece provides an introduction to the WTO's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). GATS is problematic because it encourages the privatisation of public services and amenities such as water, healthcare and education; it threatens to overrule domestic laws where these are perceived to hinder free trade; and the propositions within the agreement remain untested.
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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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    Religious Perspectives of Sexuality: a Resource Guide (with summary chart: Religion, Sexuality and Public Policy: Overview of World religions)

    Park Ridge Centre USA, 2001
    Why is it important to understand the religious dimension of issues such as reproductive health, marriage and family, adolescent sexuality, homosexuality and the role of women? For many people sexuality cannot be separated from a religious context, and their values have an impact on policy.
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    Towards Gender Equality in Tanzania: A Profile on Gender Relations

    1999
    How are men's social identities constructed in Tanzania? How can available qualitative and quantitative data be used in such a way as to reveal the nuances of interaction between women and men there? These and other questions are addressed in this gender country profile, which resulted from a participatory methods workshop on gender and development issues in Tanzania.
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    Viet Nam: Children and Women: A Situation Analysis, 2000

    2000
    Implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) are mutually reinforcing and mutually dependant.

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