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    Rwanda: Translating Government Commitments Into Action

    Commonwealth Secretariat, 2002
    How do Gender Budget Initiatives fit into broader policy frameworks? This case study from the book Gender Budgets Make More Cents: Country studies and good practice examines the Gender Budget Initiative (GBI) in Rwanda.
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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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    Impact of Government Budgets on Poverty and Gender Equality

    BRIDGE, 2000
    How can the impact of governmental spending be monitored in a way that incorporates a gender perspective? Gender Budget Initiatives (GBIs) introduce ideas of gender difference into budget analysis and formulation. This paper describes two tools used by GBI?s - benefit incidence analysis and revenue analysis.
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    Budgets as if People Mattered: Democratising Macroeconomic Policies

    United Nations Development Programme, 2000
    How can macroeconomic policy frameworks be democratised to take into account the voices and interests of women and the poor? In most countries, ordinary citizens, particularly poor women and men, do not have a say in determining how public revenues are collected and spent. An alternative is people-centred budgeting.
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    African Studies Quarterly's Special Issue: Gender and Soil Fertility in Africa

    2001
    Soil fertility is the number-one natural resource in Africa; yet during the last two decades its depletion on smallholder farms has led to stagnant or decreasing per capita food production. Unexamined, except in this special edition of the African Studies Quarterly, are the gender impacts of the soil fertility crisis in Africa.
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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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    Gender and Mining: Workplace

    2001
    This report investigates gender issues within the mining industry in South Africa and the South African Development Community (SADC). Why are so few women employed to work above and below ground? No laws exist to forbid women from working above ground and discriminatory laws have been repealed that forbid women to work underground.
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    Tackling Gender in Sustainable Land Management

    Centre for Development and Environment, 2002
    How can a gender approach be integrated into sustainable land management? Staff at the project and programme levels can use this guide to find practical ways of dealing with gender issues in rural development activities. From a perspective that takes up the Beijing call for gender mainstreaming, it also reaches out to people responsible for policy and organisational development.
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    Women and Agribusiness: Working Miracles in the Chilean Fruit Export Sector

    Macmillan Education Ltd, London and Oxford, 1999
    The feminisation of the agriculture and agro-industrial labour force in Chile is the outcome of the worldwide process of globalisation and Chile's shift to a neo-liberal model of development since the mid-1970s. Fresh fruit exported from Chile and many other developing nations has increased dramatically.

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