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The UN Millennium Project identified a set of Quick Impact Initiatives (QIIs) for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). According to the Millennium Project, QIIs are interventions to be implemented in the early years of an MDG scale-up strategy that generate rapid results. With adequate resources, they can be implemented quickly (e.g., within three years) without large investments in infrastructure or capacity. This paper suggests some criteria that donors and governments can use to identify such initiatives for gender equality and uses those criteria to develop a broader menu of QIIs for gender equality and women's empowerment in low- and middle-income countries. It focuses particularly on Quick Impact Initiatives to promote women's economic opportunities.

More than half of the world's farmers are women. They are the majority of the poor, the uneducated and are the first to suffer from drought and famine. Yet their subordination is reinforced by well-meaning development policies that perpetuate social inequalities. During the 1975-85 United Nations Decade for the Advancement of Women their position actually worsened.This book analyses three decades of policies towards Third World women. Focusing on global economic and political crises - debt, famine, militarization, fundamentalism - the authors show how women's moves to organize effective strate

1. Taxation and gender equality : a conceptual framework / Caren Grown -- 2. Methodology and comparative analysis / Caren Grown and Hitomi Komatsu -- 3. Gender equality and taxation in Argentina / Corina Rodriguez Enriquez, Natalia Gherardi and Dario Rossignolo -- 4. Gender equality and taxation in India : an unequal burden? / Pinaki Chakraborty. [et al.] -- 5. Gender analysis of taxation in Mexico / Lucia C. Perez Fragoso and Francisco Cota Gonzalez -- 6. An investigation into the gender dimensions of taxation in Ghana / Ernest Aryeetey. [et al.] -- 7. Gender equality and taxation in Morocco / Ahmed el Bouazzaoui. [et al.] -- 8. Gender equality and taxation in South Africa / Debbie Budlender, Daniela Casale and Imraan Valodia -- 9. Gender equality and taxation in Uganda / Sarah Ssewanyana. [et al.] -- 10. Gender equality and taxation : a UK case study / Jerome de Henau, Susan Himmelweit and Cristina Santos -- 11. Conclusion and policy recommendations / Imraan Valodia.

AbstractThis paper reviews the evidence of gender effects of globalization in developing economies. It then outlines a set of macroeconomic and trade policies to promote gender equity in the distribution of resources. The evidence suggests that while liberalization has expanded women's access to employment, the long‐term goal of transforming gender inequalities remains unmet and appears unattainable without regulation of capital, and a reorientation and expansion of the state's role in funding public goods and providing a social safety net. This paper sets forth some general principles that can produce greater gender equality, premised on shifting economies from profit‐led, export‐oriented to wage‐led, full‐employment economies. The framework is Kaleckian in its focus on the relationship between the gender distribution of income and macroeconomic outcomes. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.