Making gender budgeting work

Social mores cannot be changed by fiscal fiats, but gender budgeting is a starting point, argues Lekha S Chakraborty in her book, which could serve as a useful primer to guide policymakers

Fiscal Policy for Sustainable Development in Asia Pacific: Gender Budgeting In India

Author: Lekha S Chakraborty

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Price: Rs 13,300

At the outset Lekha S Chakraborty makes a significant observation about the role of fiscal transfers to generate a better gender outcome. “While social mores cannot be changed by fiscal fiats, especially  when prejudices run deep, state action is called for when they are blatantly oppressive to any section of the community. Indeed such action is imperative,” she writes. This is the starting point of Fiscal Policy for Sustainable Development in Asia-Pacific.

Gender budgeting, as the subsequent 11 chapters go on