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The fourth women's budget

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This book focuses primarily on local government budgets, with the first part of the book containing a thorough analysis of women in local government budgets as well as case studies of five municipalities-Lusikisiki, Greater Middleburg, Port Elizabeth, greater Lebowakgomo and Cape Town. In Part 2 the authors ask how many jobs are created by whom and for whom. Part 3, donor funding to the government is evaluated to see to what extent donors promote gender issues and support "women-friendly" projects and initiatives. A government's budget represents a statement of its priorities. During the past 25 years, the international community has recognized that gender equality is essential for sustainable economic growth and full social development, and it has called upon nations to use their budgets to promote gender-equitable resource allocation and revenue generation. More than 60 countries have answered this call by implementing gender-responsive budgets at the national and subnational levels. However, gender-responsive budgeting is virtually unheard of among public finance scholars and U.S. public administration scholars and practitioners. Here we define gender-responsive budgeting, discuss the need for it, describe the lessons learned, and discuss its potential as a budget reform. We hope our commentary will bring gender-responsive budgeting into the mainstream of research in the U.S. public administration community and into the practice of government budgeting.

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KP.II BUD d

Publisher

Cape Town : Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA)., 1999

Collation

iv, 372 hlm.; 24,5 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

1874864969

Classification

KP.II

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Subject(s)

Perempuan
Keadaan sosial
Keadaan ekonomi

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