This week the "Fridays Academy" arrives on a Saturday. Starting today and during a few weeks we will be looking at Gender Budgeting. As usual, from Raj Nallari and Breda Griffith's lecture notes.

Introduction

Targeting government budgeting to address gender equality has a relatively recent history and forms part of the general consensus that advocates the allocation of government funds to the direct and/or indirect support of policy areas such as environment and poverty for example.  The new emphasis on government budgeting for gender equality is more correctly defined as ‘Gender Mainstreaming’. 

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