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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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    Female Labour Migration in South-East Asia: Change and Continuity

    Asian Research Centre for Migration, Bangkok, 2001
    387 women returnees were interviewed for this study, in Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Yunnan province in China. They had returned from international labour migration, mostly as domestic helpers, caregivers, entertainers and sex workers, and a smaller proportion as workers in manufacturing or agriculture.
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    Transcending Boundaries: Labour Migration of Women from Bangladesh

    University Press Limited, Dhaka, 2001
    In recent times a major structuring of the global economy has taken place. This, among other things, has resulted in an increase in short-term migration of labour. An important feature of such restructuring is a high demand for female labour. A large number of Bangladeshi women have responded to such demand and joined the labour markets of Middle East and South East Asian countries.
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    Budgeting with a Gender Focus

    1999
    The Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP), an NGO committed to women's empowerment, spent nearly three years tracing the process of national planning and resource allocation, noting how it impacts on women and men, youth and the elderly.
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    Checklist for Mainstreaming Gender into the Government Budget

    2000
    How can a gender analysis be conducted of broad macro-economic models? This checklist outlines a step-by-step process to introduce ideas of gender into the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF). It is a tool aimed at all government officials in MDAs (ministries, departments and agencies) dealing with planning and budgets, primarily those who already have basic understanding of gender concepts.
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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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    Gender Budget Initiative Tools

    Commonwealth Secretariat, 1999
    Diane Elson's tools are the most commonly referred to of all frameworks for conducting Gender Budget Initatives. The tools are: 1. Gender-disaggregated beneficiary assessment of public service delivery and budget priorities 2. Gender-disaggregated public expenditure benefit incidence analysis 3. Gender- aware policy evaluation of public expenditure by sector 4.
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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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    Highlights from a Citizen/Gender Budget Advocacy Project in Indonesia

    BRIDGE, 2002
    How can budget advocacy effectively combine with gender analysis of budgets and political organisation and citizens? participation strategies? With capacity building, civil society organisations can understand and influence budget policy and make demands for the end of corruption and for equality and transparency.

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