Sectoral Spending Effectiveness of Gender Budgeting on Gender Equality and Fiscal Space in Education and Health: A study of the Asia Pacific Region

• Start date सितम्बर., 2019
• Completion date दिसम्बर, 2021
• Sponsor Self-initiated project (earlier version was presented in the American Economic Association meetings in Atlanta)
• Project leader Lekha Chakraborty
• Focus

  This paper empirically analyses the impact of fiscal policy practices, with particular reference to the processes and analytical frameworks of gender budgeting, on ‘equally distributed equivalent’ variables of gender in the health and education sectors within the political economy framework in the countries of the Asia-Pacific region. NIPFP has been a pioneer in gender budgeting and worked in close association with Ministry of Finance to institutionalise gender budgeting in 2004. Given that the NIPFP methodology of gender budgeting at the national and sub-national levels has remained unchanged, we can use time series data to analyse the impact of gender budgeting on gender equality outcomes and the fiscal space. The inferences from this study will provide an empirical review of gender budgeting across countries in the Asia Pacific with clear policy inputs for the Ministry of Finance.