Unsafe Abortions and Women's Health
Although unsafe and illegal abortions claim many lives and severely damage women's health, international conventions on providing safe facilities for women have not had much success. A rights-based...
View ArticleGender Budgeting Statement
The gender budgeting statement presented in the union budget for 2006-07 covers a significant number of ministries/departments and is hence a welcome step. However, many of the figures given in the...
View ArticleWhat Does Budget 2007-08 Offer Women?
A closer look at the gender budgeting statement in the Union Budget 2007-08 reveals that programmes and allocations remain plagued by "mistakes", with several schemes wrongly prioritised as being...
View ArticleAn Assessment of UPA-I through a Gender Budgeting Lens
This article evaluates the United Progressive Alliance government's budgets over the past five years through the lens of gender - both from reviewing the gender budgeting statements in union budgets...
View ArticleWhat Does Budget 2010 Imply for the Social Sector?
The Union Budget for 2010-11 does pay some attention to a few important areas in the social sector like women and child development, development of minorities, rural housing and technical education,...
View ArticleGender Responsive Budgeting in India: What Has Gone Wrong?
The manner in which the Indian initiative on gender responsive budgeting has panned out appears to be a classic case of putting the cart before the horse. This article analyses the two prime strategies...
View ArticleThe Paradox of Gender Responsive Budgeting
The web version of this article corrects a few errors that appeared in the print edition.Despite the steps towards gender responsive budgeting, the budgetary allocations for promoting gender equality...
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