What Does Budget 2007-08 Offer Women?
Economic and Political Weekly (Vol. 42, Issue No. 16)
2007
Journal Article
GRB
A closer look at the gender budgeting statement in the Union Budget 2007-08 reveals that programmes and allocations remain plagued by "mistakes", with several schemes wrongly prioritised as being exclusively for women. The fact that women have begun to figure in the annual financial exercise of the government is a laudable step, but there remains a need to prioritise women in all development schemes of the government.