Gender



A growing number of fragile states have taken steps to make their budget more gender responsive. But questions remain for economists and policy makers about… Read More ›

Gender Budgeting in Fragile States

Editor’s note: This is an extract of a speech given by Miranda Stewart at the Women in Economics post-Budget event, held at the National Press… Read More ›

Budget Forum 2017/Women in Economics: Tax, Transfers and Budget Fairness

Editor’s note: This is an extract of a speech given by Rachel Ong at the Women in Economics post-Budget event, held at the National Press… Read More ›

Budget Forum 2017/Women in Economics: Housing in Budget 2017-18

The relationship between retirement income and housing has long been acknowledged. In fact, the family home is sometimes referred to as the fourth pillar of… Read More ›

Budget Forum 2017: No Super Fix to Housing, or to Super

This post was originally published as part of the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute Policy Brief series. After some years of stasis, superannuation tax reform… Read More ›

2016 Budget Superannuation Reforms

Most government policies these days look gender neutral. But in substance, government policy often has a different impact on women and men, in distributing benefits… Read More ›

Gender Neutral Policies are a Myth: Why We Need a Women’s Budget

Why do we care about high EMTRs? The calculation of EMTRs and their use in policy debates assumes that people are motivated by money, that… Read More ›

Effective Marginal Tax Rates: Part 2

Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) initiatives examine how governments raise revenue and allocate expenditures to advance or hinder the goal of gender equality. In a positive… Read More ›

Gender Responsive Budgeting at the OECD

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