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Gender Budgeting: Fiscal Context and Current Outcomes

By Janet Gale Stotsky

July 27, 2016

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Janet Gale Stotsky. Gender Budgeting: Fiscal Context and Current Outcomes, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2016) accessed December 21, 2024
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Summary

Gender budgeting is an approach to budgeting that uses fiscal policy and administration to promote gender equality and girls and women’s development. This paper posits that, properly designed, gender budgeting improves budgeting, and it places budgeting for this purpose in the context of sound budgeting principles and practices. The paper provides an overview of the policies and practices associated with gender budgeting as they have emerged across the world, as well as examples of the most prominent initiatives in every region of the world. Finally, it suggests what can be learned from these initiatives.

Subject: Budget planning and preparation, Fiscal policy, Gender, Gender budgeting, Gender inequality, Public financial management (PFM), Women

Keywords: A number of country effort, Budget decision, Budget planning and preparation, Budget process, Country, Fiscal administration, Fiscal policies, Gender budgeting, Gender inequality, Government, Government activity, Government budget decision, Government bureaucracy, Government ministry, Government oversight, Government policy, Government program, State budget, Sub-Saharan Africa, Women, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    51

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2016/149

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2016149

  • ISBN:

    9781475575460

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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