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  Gender Budgets Make Cents: Understanding Gender Responsive Budgets

  Commonwealth Secretariat, 2002

  How can greater consistency between social commitments and economic goals be achieved? This publication aims to inspire government officials, policy-makers, donor agencies, and civil society groups to engage in gender-responsive budget initiatives by demonstrating both equity and efficiency gains.
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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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  Gender Profile: Cuba

  Canadian International Development Agency, 2002

  Women bear the brunt of the profound economic crisis in Cuba caused by the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe and the lose of economic subsidies from the Soviet Union. Although statistics on the situation of Cuban women are lacking, those that do exist reveal a decrease in wages, insufficient subsidised day care, and a growing gap between those who have access to U.S.
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  Women's Rights and Gender Equality in the EU Enlargement. An Opportunity for Progress

  BRIDGE, 2002

  Twelve countries from Eastern Europe have been candidates for EU membership since 1998.
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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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  Institutionalising Gender Equality Commitments in Development Organisations and Programs

  BRIDGE, 2001

  To what extent have donor agencies institutionalised their commitments to gender equality? This research looks at successful strategies for advancing gender equality commitments at organisational and field levels, lessons about what works and what does not. It is based on field visits, interviews and dicussions with donor agencies in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States.
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  Integrating Gender into the World Bank's Work: A Strategy for Action

  World Bank, 2002

  Despite some progress in gender mainstreaming, the World Bank's effectiveness can be improved by paying more systematic and widespread attention to gender issues in the context of its poverty reduction mandate.
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  Mainstreaming the Needs of Women

  2002

  UNESCO's strategy to implement the Beijing Platform of Action is three-pronged. UNESCO aims to mainstream gender in all its work, to encourage the participation of women at all levels and fields of activity and thirdly to develop specific programmes and activities for the benefit of girls and women.

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