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    Gender-neutral, Gender-blind, or Gender-sensitive Budgets? Changing the Conceptual Framework to Include Women's Empowerment and the Economy of Care

    Commonwealth Secretariat, 1999
    Budgets are often assumed to be gender-neutral, whereas in reality they tend to be gender blind - failing to take into account the fact that men and women have different roles, responsibilities and resources in society. This failure leads to further discrimination against and disempowerment of women. One of the major failures of budgets is their neglect of the unpaid 'care economy'.
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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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    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 Budget Initiative in India?Education Sector Insights

    BRIDGE, 2002
    This presentation was given at a DFID seminar entitled 'Gender Budgeting' in July 2002. It outlines gender budgeting efforts in India at the National and State levels. Case studies from the education sector are provided.

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