The Political Economy of Gender Budgeting: Empirical Evidence from India

Lekha Chakraborty, Veena Nayyar and Komal Jain

Working Papers from National Institute of Public Finance and Policy

Abstract: Gender budgeting is a public policy innovation to transform the gender commit-ments into budgetary commitments. The political economy process of gender budget-ing in India has encompassed four distinct phases - innovative knowledge networking, building institutional structures, reinforcing state capacity and strengthening the ac-countability mechanisms. Against these policy processes, we have estimated the sec-tor-wise quantum of gender budgeting in India emphasising the statistical invisibility of care economy. The State-wise equally distributed equavalent (Xede) estimates of gen-der development showed that Kerala tops the scale 0-1 scoring 0.72. Though the link between gender budgeting and these Xede scores is beyond the scope of the paper, the fiscal marksmanship of gender budgeting showed a mixed scenario across sectors. The fiscal marksmanship of gender budgeting showed an upward bias in the errors in the projections relate to education, social justice empowerment and health, and down-ward bias in agriculture, petroleum and natural gas. These deviations between BE and RE in gender budgeting has significant policy implications for better state capacity and governance.

Keywords: Gender Budgeting; Fiscal Marksmanship; Gender Inequality; Inter-gov-ernmental Fiscal Transfers; Care Economy; Political Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H00 H77 I3 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15
Date: 2019-03
Note: Working Paper 256, 2019
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