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Middle East and Central Asia: A Survey of Gender Budgeting Efforts

By Lisa L Kolovich, Sakina Shibuya

July 28, 2016

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Lisa L Kolovich, and Sakina Shibuya. Middle East and Central Asia: A Survey of Gender Budgeting Efforts, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2016) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

Gender budgeting uses fiscal policies to promote gender equality and women’s advancement, but is struggling to take hold in the Middle East and Central Asia. We provide an overview of two gender budgeting efforts in the region—Morocco and Afghanistan. Achievements in these two countries include increasing female primary and secondary education enrollment rates and reducing maternal mortality. But the region not only needs to use fiscal policies for women’s advancement, but also reform tax and financial laws, enforce laws that assure women’s safety in public, and change laws that prevent women from taking advantage of employment opportunities.

Subject: Education, Gender, Gender budgeting, Gender inequality, Labor, Labor force participation, Women

Keywords: Association Démocratique des femmes du Maroc, Central Asia and the Caucasus, Child care, Countries warrant, East Africa, Fiscal policy and administration, GCC country, Gender budgeting, Gender inequality, Government, Government measure, Italicized country, Labor force participation, Middle East, Middle East and Central Asia, Morocco's gender, National budget, North Africa, Public finance, Train government personnel, Ways country, Women, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    40

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2016/151

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2016151

  • ISBN:

    9781475519983

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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