Western Hemisphere : A Survey of Gender Budgeting Efforts
This paper surveys and assesses some key initiatives, including those in Mexico, Mexico City, Ecuador, Bolivia, and El Salvador
Abstract
Gender budgeting is an approach to fiscal policy and administration that integrates considerations of women鈥檚 equality and advancement into the budget. Latin American countries have undertaken diverse gender budgeting initiatives, most of them addressing public expenditures. This paper surveys and assesses some key initiatives, including those in Mexico, Mexico City, Ecuador, Bolivia, and El Salvador, and briefly summarizes others. The five key initiatives offer different perspectives on how countries approach gender budgeting. The authors find that these initiatives are contributing to the reduction of gender inequality and the advancement of women in Latin America, though there is scope to strengthen them.
This work is part of the 鈥楳acroeconomics in Low-income countries鈥� programme
Citation
Luc铆a P茅rez Fragoso, Corina Rodr铆guez Enr铆quez (2016). Western Hemisphere : A Survey of Gender Budgeting Efforts. IMF Working Paper No. 16/153