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    How to Make the Law Work? Budgetary Implications of Domestic Violence Policies in Latin America

    2003
    How can domestic violence be reduced in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)? This synthesis research paper demonstrates that to make domestic violence policy work there needs to be sufficient budgetary allocations to enable the laws enacted in these countries to translate into action.
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    Gender Impacts of Government Revenue Collection: The Case of Taxation

    Commonwealth Secretariat, 2004
    Are 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.
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    Urbanisation and Urban Poverty: A Gender Analysis

    BRIDGE, 1997
    Urbanisation and urban growth have accelerated in many developing countries in the past few years due to natural population growth and rural-urban migration. The processes of urbanisation have been shaped by gender patterns of migration in each context. Urban planning has focused, to a large extent, on physical and spatial aspects of urban development.
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    BRIDGE Report 49: Human Rights and Poverty: A Gender Analysis

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 1996
    Poor enforceability of women's rights in the home, over property, and in the labour market mean that women are more vulnerable to poverty than men. Poverty drives women into situations where they become vulnerable to harassment and abuse in their attempts to secure a livelihood.
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    BRIDGE Report 56: Gender and Development: Facts and Figures

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2000
    What evidence is there of gender inequalities in life outcomes between women and men? This report provides facts and figures that expose gender inequalities, providing evidence of the need to engender development.
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    BRIDGE Report 57: Gender and Development: Frequently Asked Questions

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2000
    What right do we have to interfere in other people's cultures? This is one question frequently asked of gender advocates. This collection draws together a range of popular questions and proposes possible answers. It is divided into three main sections. The first poses questions relating to gender in development more broadly that might be asked by those not familiar with the issues.
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    An Analysis of the WTO-AOA Review from the Perspective of Rural Women in Asia

    2003
    How does the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Agreement on Agriculture (AOA) affect the livelihoods of rural women in Asia? This paper, prepared on the occasion of the WTO-AOA review in 2003, analyzes the impact of the new trading rules imposed by the WTO on Asian peasants.
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    International Gender and Trade Network: WTO Fifth Ministerial Meeting, Cancun, Mexico, September 10-14th, 2003 (Position Papers on Four WTO Issues)

    2003
    The 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.
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    BRIDGE Report 61: Gender and Micro Credit - Useful Resources

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2001
    International development organisations have for the past decade supported small-scale loans and credit in different forms (solidarity-groups, small enterprises, rotating saving schemes). Much has been written on the positive and negative long-term and short-term impacts of such projects and programmes. Considerable information on such measures to combat gender inequity has been generated.
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    What Does the Collapse of the Cancun Ministerial Mean for Women's Rights in Development? Final Reflections on the World Trade Organization's 5th Ministerial Conference

    2003
    The most significant outcome of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference, according to this paper, is a challenge to the supremacy of the 'superpowers' from the strong alliances forged by developing countries. The South found a voice and leadership to advance its own interests, such as to push for the reduction of domestic agricultural subsidies in rich countries.

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