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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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  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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  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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  Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals Leaflet

  World Bank, 2003

  The aspirations set out in the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and their associated targets and indicators represent a powerful framework for action, drawing on the Millennium Declaration, agreed by 189 countries at the UN in September 2000. This leaflet summarises how gender equality and the empowerment of women are essential to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
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  Transcending boundaries to improve the food security of AIDS affected households in rural Uganda

  International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2003

  In most of sub-Saharan Africa, the HIV/AIDS epidemic is crippling the livelihood systems of households, jeopardizing income flow, and threatening food security.
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  Proceedings of the International Workshop on Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals

  World Bank, 2003

  This workshop brought together international development stakeholders to explore various aspects of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) debate. The MDGs are eight goals which set a development agenda to be achieved by 2015.
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  Common Ground, Women's Access to Natural Resources and the United Nations Millennium Development Goals

  2003

  Due to traditional gender roles, many women and girls are denied access to and control over water, energy, land and biodiversity, despite their critical role in sustaining these natural resources. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) can potentially address this concern.
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  Seeking Accountability on Women's Human Rights: Women Debate the Millennium Development Goals

  2004

  How and why should women's movements engage with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)? Can the goals be used to hold governments and other institutions accountable? Do they address roots and causes as well as solutions?
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  Experts Meeting on Gender Mainstreaming of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) in Selected African Countries: Proceedings

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2003

  Through presentations and working groups, participants from governments, civil society and donor agencies explored conceptual issues around gender and poverty, how to engender Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and the extent to which gender-sensitive budget initiatives are integrated into these.
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  Individual versus Community

  Publishers WWW sites, 1998

  Citizenship theory is based largely on the rights and responsibilities of the individual. Where does the community fit in to such theories, and how does the emphasis on the individual limit the application of citizenship theories to a western perspective? In this chapter Chilla Bulbeck challenges three key areas of citizenship theory and practice.

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