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Fiscal Policies and Gender Equality

Author : Ms.Lisa L Kolovich

Publisher : International Monetary Fund

Page : 250 pages

File Size : 50,3 MB

Release : 2018-04-11

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1484348877

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Historically, women around the world have had fewer opportunities than men in education, employment, health care, and politics. The moral argument for gender equality is clear, and the economic evidence is mounting. The International Monetary Fund and other international institutions have worked to help whittle away at the barriers that prevent girls and women from achieving their full economic potential. This book is based on a joint research project between the IMF and the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development on gender budgeting around the world. The book summarizes prominent gender budgeting initiatives in more than 80 countries. Gender budgeting allows fiscal authorities to ensure that tax spending and policies address inequality and the advancement of women. Gender budgeting goals include increasing access to education, childcare, and health services; raising female labor force participation; and eradicating violence against women.



Taxation and Gender Equity

Author : Caren Grown

Publisher : IDRC

Page : 349 pages

File Size : 26,73 MB

Release : 2010

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0415568226

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Around the world, there are concerns that many tax codes are biased against women, and that contemporary tax reforms tend to increase the incidence of taxation on the poorest women while failing to generate enough revenue to fund the programs needed to improve these women's lives. Because taxes are the key source of revenue governments themselves raise, understanding the nature and composition of taxation and current tax reform efforts is key to reducing poverty, providing sufficient revenue for public expenditure, and achieving social justice. This is the first book to systematically examine gender and taxation within and across countries at different levels of development. It presents original research on the gender dimensions of personal income taxes, and value-added, excise, and fuel taxes in Argentina, Ghana, India, Mexico, Morocco, South Africa, Uganda and the United Kingdom. This book will be of interest to postgraduates and researchers studying Public Finance, International Economics, Development Studies, Gender Studies, and International Relations, among other disciplines.



Tax, Social Policy and Gender

Author : Miranda Stewart

Publisher :

Page : 358 pages

File Size : 20,4 MB

Release : 2017-11-06

Category : Equality before the law

ISBN : 9781760461478

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Gender inequality is profoundly unjust and in clear contradiction to the philosophy of the 'fair go'. In spite of some action by recent governments, Australia has fallen behind in policy and outcomes, even as the G20 group of nations, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the International Monetary Fund are paying renewed attention to gender inequality. Tax, Social Policy and Gender presents new research on entrenched gender inequality in a comparative framework of human rights and fiscal sustainability. Ground-breaking empirical studies examine unequal returns to education for women and men, decision-making about child care by fathers and mothers, the history and gendered effects of the income tax and family payments, and women in the top 1 per cent. Contributors demonstrate how Australia's tax, social security, child care, parental leave, education, work and retirement income policies intersect to compound gender inequality. Tax, Social Policy and Gender calls for a rethinking of equality and efficiency in tax and social policy and provides new policy solutions. It offers a pathway to achieve gender mainstreaming for women's economic security and the wellbeing of all Australians.



Gender Equality and Public Policy

Author : Paola Profeta

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 231 pages

File Size : 36,94 MB

Release : 2020-04-16

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1108423353

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This book offers a comprehensive and in-depth overview of how public policy is shaping gender equality in Europe.



Gender Equality and Inclusive Growth

Author : Raquel Fernández

Publisher : International Monetary Fund

Page : 50 pages

File Size : 38,4 MB

Release : 2021-03-04

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1513571168

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This paper considers various dimensions and sources of gender inequality and presents policies and best practices to address these. With women accounting for fifty percent of the global population, inclusive growth can only be achieved if it promotes gender equality. Despite recent progress, gender gaps remain across all stages of life, including before birth, and negatively impact health, education, and economic outcomes for women. The roadmap to gender equality has to rely on legal framework reforms, policies to promote equal access, and efforts to tackle entrenched social norms. These need to be set in the context of arising new trends such as digitalization, climate change, as well as shocks such as pandemics.



Challenging Gender Inequality in Tax Policy Making

Author : Kim Brooks

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 318 pages

File Size : 12,90 MB

Release : 2011-05-16

Category : Law

ISBN : 1847316549

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This volume takes a critical look at the gender of tax policy around the world. Contributors based in eight different countries examine the profound effects that gender norms and practices have had in shaping tax law and policy, and how taxation in turn impacts upon the possibilities for equality along gender, race, class, sexuality and other lines. Chapters explore how the gendered fiscal state might be theorised; how structural choices about rates and bases in tax policy design contribute to gender inequality; how tax policy affects family configurations and perceptions of what constitutes family; how fiscal systems impact on savings and wealth accumulation by women and men; and the role of different policy-making processes and institutions in occluding and sometimes challenging these patterns. Most significantly, perhaps, the book explores these questions in an international frame, traversing countries and continents. The conclusion: fiscal policy has deep rooted, long standing gender implications that affect virtually every aspect of our social, political, and economic lives whether we live in Canada, Australia or Kenya.



Gender Inequality and Economic Growth: Evidence from Industry-Level Data

Author : Ata Can Bertay

Publisher : International Monetary Fund

Page : 42 pages

File Size : 28,83 MB

Release : 2020-07-03

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1513546279

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We study whether higher gender equality facilitates economic growth by enabling better allocation of a valuable resource: female labor. By allocating female labor to its more productive use, we hypothesize that reducing gender inequality should disproportionately benefit industries with typically higher female share in their employment relative to other industries. Specifically, we exploit within-country variation across industries to test whether those that typically employ more women grow relatively faster in countries with ex-ante lower gender inequality. The test allows us to identify the causal effect of gender inequality on industry growth in value-added and labor productivity. Our findings show that gender inequality affects real economic outcomes.



Gender Budgets Make More Cents

Author : Debbie Budlender

Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat

Page : 208 pages

File Size : 48,59 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780850927344

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Comprises ten papers which document "good practice" in gender budget work from across the globe.



Gender and Macroeconomic Policy

Author : Raj Nallari

Publisher : World Bank Publications

Page : 188 pages

File Size : 26,48 MB

Release : 2011-01-05

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0821374354

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Mainstream economic analysis has traditionally overlooked gender. The individual the basic category of analysis was regarded as genderless. Neither gender discrimination nor segmentation and segregation within the labor market or within the household was present. Contributions from development theory, new household economics (NHE), labor economics, and feminist analysis have done much to change this. Focusing on gender equality by which we mean equality in opportunity, inputs, and outcome has yielded important insights for the growth and development of an economy. But we are still at the cusp. While there have been huge improvements in recognizing gender as an analytical category at the microeconomic level, the macroeconomic implications of gender equality remain undeveloped. Engendering macroeconomics is an important and valid research and policy area. Over the past three decades, economic development has generally affected women differently than men in the developing world. At the same time, gender relations have affected macroeconomic outcomes. This volume examines the research and policy implications of engendering macroeconomic policy.



Fiscal Policies and Gender Equality

Author : Ms.Lisa L Kolovich

Publisher : International Monetary Fund

Page : 250 pages

File Size : 23,4 MB

Release : 2018-04-11

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1513590367

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This volume contains seven chapters that consider how fiscal policies can address women’s and girls’ disadvantages in education, health, employment, and financial well-being. Researchers from a joint collaboration between the International Monetary Fund and the UK’s Department for International Development presented papers at a 2016 international conference on gender budgeting at the International Monetary Fund headquarters in Washington, DC, and detail the findings of their work here, which draws on published materials, a questionnaire sent to ministries of finance to all International Monetary Fund member countries, and interviews with country officials and international organizations that offer technical assistance to countries seeking to implement gender budgeting. They describe key gender budgeting efforts planning, allocating, and monitoring government expenditures and taxes to address gender inequality in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Latin America and Canada, the Middle East and Central Asia, and the Pacific Islands and Caribbean.