Millennium Development Goals & Gender Budgeting: Where Does India Stand?
Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability
2010
Working Paper
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
The paper makes an assessment of the allocation priorities in the last three Union Budgets with the help of the information compiled by the Finance Ministry in the Gender Budgeting Statements (GBS). It presents a brief critique of the MDGs from a gender lens and focuses primarily on the Union Government's efforts towards achieving the goal of gender equality.