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Who benefits more? Benefit of the government by gender

Who benefits more? Benefit of the government by gender. Saskia Keuzenkamp Gender statistics workshop October 2008 Geneva. Policies in gender neutral terms Impact on women and men can differ Gender budgeting as policy tool GBA: gender impact assessment. Gender Budget Analysis (GBA): why?.

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Who benefits more? Benefit of the government by gender

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  1. Who benefits more? Benefit of the government by gender Saskia Keuzenkamp Gender statistics workshop October 2008 Geneva

  2. Policies in gender neutral terms Impact on women and men can differ Gender budgeting as policy tool GBA: gender impact assessment Gender Budget Analysis (GBA): why?

  3. No single approach Example of a tool developed in the Netherlands, based on a tradition of monitoring benefit by households: Public service, personal benefit (Evert Pommer) Focus on income transfers associated with consumption of goods and services Not all groups benefit equally: redistribution of income Gender Budget Analysis: How?

  4. Seven sectors (expenditure 2003)

  5. Questions: How should children be treated? How should goods / services consumed at household level be treated? Data: several surveys Allocating the benefit

  6. Benefit from the government m/f (2003)

  7. Women are more dependent on government provisions. Main reasons: High use by single parents (more women) High use by older single people (more women) Gender roles Women benefit more

  8. Health calculated by use

  9. Regular policies have gendered impact Importance of economic statistics: what can be expected of changes of policies? Necessity of individual data Concluding remarks

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