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    Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Belize, Mexico, Nigeria, Senegal, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Philippines, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Afghanistan, Morocco, Egypt

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    These include (1) budget preparation, (2) approval, (3) execution, and (4) evaluation and audit.

  3. 3.

    See Diane Elson’s 7 tools: (1) gender-aware policy appraisal, (2) gender-disaggregated beneficiary assessment, (3) gender-disaggregated public expenditure incidence analysis, (4) gender-disaggregated analysis of the impact of the budget on time use, (5) gender-aware medium-term economic policy frameworks, (6) gender-aware budget statements, and (7) disaggregated tax incidence analysis; Rhonda Sharp’s 3-way categorization of gender expenditure; Debbie Budlender, 5 steps of gender budgeting; and OECD’s 10 tools.

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    Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT) website: http://www.fiscaltransparency.net/blog/

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Khan, Z. (2019). Gender-Responsive Budgeting. In: Poff, D., Michalos, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23514-1_141-1

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