Budgeting for Women's Rights: Monitoring Government Budgets for Compliance with CEDAW - Brossura

Elson, Diane

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ISBN 10: 1932827471 ISBN 13: 9781932827477

Casa editrice: Lynne Rienner, 2006

Riassunto

This publication elaborates on how budgets and budget policy-making processes can be monitored for compliance with human rights standards, in particular with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
Combining substantive analysis with country examples, the publication explores how a rights-based budget analysis can be applied to public expenditure, public revenue, macroeconomics of the budget, and budget decision-making.

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L'autore

Diane Elson is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex, UK and Senior Scholar and Co-director of the Levy Economics Institute’s program on Gender Equality and the Economy.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina

People’s access to services and resources are determined by government budget policies. Gender budgets initiatives around the world have attempted to systematically examine how government budgets address discrimination with regard to women’s access to housing, employment, health, education, and other services. Often these exercises have been eye-openers: A budget analysis of domestic violence policies and laws in seven countries in Latin America, for example, revealed that appropriations for domestic violence programs and interventions were non-existent in cases. Similar evidence of gender discrimination is found when examining taxation policies. This publication adds a landmark to the discourse on the link between human rights standards and government budgets. It elaborates on how budgets and budget policy making processes can be monitored for compliance with human rights standards, in particular with the Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Combining substantive analysis with country examples, the publication explores how a rights-based budget analysis can be applied to public expenditure, public revenue, macroeconomics of the budget, and budget decision-making.

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• Editore: Lynne Rienner
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1932827471
• ISBN 13: 9781932827477
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 172