1. Macroeconomic regimes in OECD countries and the interrelation with gender orders / Friederike Maier -- 2. Changing macroeconomic governance and gender orders : the case of Canada / Isabella Bakker -- 3. EU macroeconomic governance and gender orders : the case of Austria / Elisabeth Klatzer...

Radhika Balakrishnan, Diane Elson and Rajeev Patel propose a novel focus and methodology that allows us to evaluate macro-economic policies from the perspective of the progressive realization of the people's economic and social human rights, and the States’ compliance with their minimal, basic...

Although the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been ratified in global and national forums, they have not yet been incorporated into operational planning within governments or international organizations. The weak link between the policies and the investments needed for their...

The national budget generally has different implications for women and men, but it is put together without consideration of gender equality. Tools are being developed to integrate gender analysis into appraisal of delivery of public services, composition of expenditure and revenue, and overall...

This paper contributes to new thinking in economics by employing a human rights perspective to examine the budget deficit reduction strategy of the UK coalition government, as set out in 2010 in the June budget and October Spending Review. Focusing on economic and social rights, the paper...