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Author Costa, Monica, author

Title Gender Responsive Budgeting in Fragile States : the Case of Timor-Leste / Monica Costa
Edition First edition
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource : text file, PDF
Series Routledge ISS Gender, Sexuality and Development Studies
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 The emergence of gender-responsive budgeting: gender machinery and the state; 3 The influence of gender-focused parliamentary institutions in gender-responsive budgeting; 4 The contribution of the women's movement to making economic policy more gender responsive; 5 The role of international parliamentary bodies in supporting gender-responsive budgeting; 6 Administrative data and their potential for gender analysis in the education sector
7 The potential of gender analysis to improve policy and budgeting8 Conclusion; References; Index
Summary "A growing number of governments have made commitments to achieving gender equality and women's rights, with many using gender responsive budgeting (GRB) to allocate resources for the delivery of economic policy and governance that benefit men and women equally. At a time when GRB is growing in global traction, this book investigates what it can deliver for gender equality and state resilience in contexts where the state is weak or prone to violence, such as in Timor-Leste. Gender Responsive Budgeting in Fragile States: The Case of Timor-Leste uses the Timor-Leste case to investigate whether gender equality reform can be adopted at the same time as establishing economic and institutional fundamentals. While some may have thought that the adoption of GRB strategy in 2008 was premature, Monica Costa argues that GRB initiatives have contributed to budget accountability and transparency, and ultimately improved policy and budget processes and decisions. This multi-disciplinary analysis of a decade of GRB demonstrates why GRB is important to inform the debate on state fragility-resilience and argues that fragile states cannot defer gender equality in the name of getting the economic and institutional basics right. While a growing number of fragile states have taken steps to make their budget more gender responsive, questions remain for economists and policy makers about what can be achieved, and how. Gender Responsive Budgeting in Fragile States is the first international publication on GRB in fragile state contexts and will be of interest to researchers, upper level students, policy makers and NGOs with an interest in policy, economics, gender and development."--Provided by publisher
Subject Budget -- Timor-Leste
Women's rights -- Timor-Leste
Equality -- Economic aspects
Sex discrimination -- Developing countries
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
Budget
Equality -- Economic aspects
Sex discrimination
Women's rights
Developing countries
Timor-Leste
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781315283098
1315283093