Government Budgets and Financing Gender Equality in Haryana

By : Devinder Singh Hooda

Page No: 356-369

Abstract
Recognized as the largest single source of financing for gender equality and women’s empowerment, government budgets, working through national and sub-national budgets, strive to be translated into practical policies and programs. Recommendations are made on how governments can better integrate a gender perspective into their public finance systems as well as increase the participation of women in macroeconomic and budgetary policy formulation. Budget is an important tool in the hands of state for affirmative action for improvement of gender relations through reduction of gender gap in the development process. It can help to reduce economic inequalities, between men and women as well as between the rich and the poor. Understanding the relationship between macroeconomic policies and the Union Budget, states’ budget and the local self-government institutions in the context of economic reforms and globalization is a must as it has influenced women’s lives in several ways.

Author :
Devinder Singh Hooda : Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Indira Gandhi University, Meerpur, (Rewari)—122502, Haryana, India