Public Value Perspective for Gender Budgeting: Evidence from Egypt

Lobna AbdelLatif, Mohamed Zaky () and Mohamed Ramadan
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Mohamed Zaky: Cairo University

No 1075, Working Papers from Economic Research Forum

Abstract: This paper proposes a conceptual framework that relates failure of progressing in gender equality to weakness of budgetary and political institutions. Whereas, the former drift budgetary allocation away from producing the required public values, the latter leads to failure of reconciling and shaping individual values to come up with informed budgetary objectives. Application on Egypt shows that gender values may be locked in the basic needs perspective and lack an informed governance framework to position them dynamically in the utilitarian set of objectives of the budgetary system. Fiscal transparency should inform the process of public values formation and level up budgetary objectives for gender. Additionally, tapping up all public assets and networking them with the budgetary exercise is an important responsibility for governments.

Pages: 20
Date: 2017-30-03, Revised 2017
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