Blog Post
At the Women’s Budget Group we are happy to see that the IMF is paying some attention to Gender Budgeting.
At the Women’s Budget Group we are happy to see that the IMF is paying some attention to Gender Budgeting.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has undertaken research on gender and macroeconomics which includes a world-wide survey of gender budgeting as a tool to increase gender equality.
The IMF, funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), is reviewing global polices on tax and expenditure against how they promote gender equality.
The IMF team have released an online toolkit of gender budgeting indicators and gender equality indices. This collaboration on gender budgeting is part of a wider macroeconomic research for development project.
Read the full article on their research and its associated resources here.
The WBG's contribution to the UN Independent Expert on Foreign Debt and Human Rights on how women bore the brunt of economic austerity since 2010.
Ahead of the 2018 Autumn Budget, we’ve put together a briefing on public transport and gender.
A guest blog by Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and human rights
Here we provide our gender impact assessment of the Coalition Government’s Spending Round 2013, announced on 26 June 2013.