Gender Audit of Budgets

Published By: | Published Date: March, 09 , 2006

The Budget is an important tool in the hands of state for affirmative action for improvement of gender relations through reduction of gender gap in the development process. Budgets garner resources through taxation policies and allocate resources to different sections of the economy and can help to reduce economic inequalities, between men and women as well as between the rich and the poor. Hence, the budgetary policies need to keep into considerations the gender dynamics operating in the economy and in the civil society.

Author(s): Vibhuti Patel | Posted on: Mar 09, 2006 | Views(3271) | Download (372)


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