Taxing for inequalities: gender budgeting in the Western Balkans

Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic and Aida A Hozić

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Abstract: This article seeks to illuminate structural limits of Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) by analysing the interplay between economic and fiscal reforms, promoted by International Financial Institutions (IFIs), and gender budgeting initiatives in the Western Balkans. GRB is the core concept bridging revenue mobilization and gender equality in the work of IFIs. However, as the Western Balkans experience demonstrates, GRB initiatives are best characterized as “empty gestures” towards gender equality as they cannot compensate for the continued adverse effects of IFIs overall policies.

Keywords: gender responsive budgeting; VAT; Western Balkans; revenue mobilization; consumptions-led growth; financialization; households (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E6 N0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2020-11-01
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Published in Review of International Political Economy, 1, November, 2020, 27(6), pp. 1280 - 1304. ISSN: 0969-2290

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