01827cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF017005 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781475520040 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Perez Fragoso, Lucia. Western Hemisphere : A Survey of Gender Budgeting Efforts / Lucia Perez Fragoso, Corina Rodriguez Enriquez. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2016. 1 online resource (50 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Gender budgeting is an approach to fiscal policy and administration that integrates considerations of women's equality and advancement into the budget. Latin American countries have undertaken diverse gender budgeting initiatives, most of them addressing public expenditures. This paper surveys and assesses some key initiatives, including those in Mexico, Mexico City, Ecuador, Bolivia, and El Salvador, and briefly summarizes others. The five key initiatives offer different perspectives on how countries approach gender budgeting. We find that these initiatives are contributing to the reduction of gender inequality and the advancement of women in Latin America, though there is scope to strengthen them. Mode of access: Internet Rodriguez Enriquez, Corina. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2016/153 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2016/153/001.2016.issue-153-en.xml IMF e-Library