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This book examines how macro-fiscal policy can lead to gender-aware human development in an emerging economy like India, with special reference to gender budgeting. Integrating gender lens in macro-fiscal policies has been widely recognized in international and national policy making and budgeting. The book highlights the gender diagnosis—the measurement issues relate to construction of gender outcome variables; the statistical invisibility of unpaid care economy sector and how deficiency in public infrastructure can accentuate the private costs; the analytical link between gender outcome variables and macro-fiscal policy frameworks; the role and impact of fiscal transfers on gender equality outcomes at subnational levels; time series of gender budgets in India across sectors and its fiscal marksmanship; gender disaggregated public expenditure benefit incidence analysis to understand the distributional impacts of public spending on women across income quintiles and suggest policy alternatives. The book uses unique database—time use survey data and the disaggregated demand for grants, expenditure budgets using gender lens. The book employs case study, simple statistical tools for the analysis and econometric methodology.
Contents
Introduction.- Macroeconomic Policy Coherence and Gender Equality in Asia Pacific.- Measuring Gender Inequality.- Measuring Unpaid Care Economy.- Fiscal Policy and Gender Inequality in Asia Pacific.- Determining Gender Equality in Fiscal Federalism.- Political Economy of Gender Budgeting: Fiscal Marksmanship.- Public Expenditure Benefit Incidence.- Gender Budgeting in PFM: Evidence from Asia Pacific.- Conclusion.
