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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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  Gender-Sensitive Budget Initiatives for Latin American and the Caribbean: A Tool For Improving Accountability and Achieving Effective Policy Implementation

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2000

  Are women's needs and interests included in government budgets or do their contributions to national development remain unrecognised? This report reviews the experiences, tools, and resources available for creating budgets that promote gender equity.
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  Gender Budget Initiative: Background Papers

  Commonwealth Secretariat, 1999

  At face value, budgets appear to be gender-neutral policy instruments. In reality, they are gender-blind because they ignore the different roles, responsibilities and capabilities of men and women, hence have a different impact on both groups.
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  Tools for Gender Analysis of the National Budget

  Commonwealth Secretariat, 1999

  Action is required at three levels in order to incorporate gender considerations into public expenditure decisions. Policy tools should be applied, gender-disaggregated data must be used, and dialogue needs to be strengthened. This set of technical tools aims to meet the first level and assist in gender- sensitisation of the national budgetary process.
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  Gender Budget Initiative: A Commonwealth Initiative to Integrate Gender into National Budgetary Processes

  Commonwealth Secretariat, 1999

  It is good economic sense to make national budgets gender-sensitive, as this will enable more effective targeting of government expenditure to specific sectors of the population, and reduce inequitable consequences of previous fiscal policies.

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