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Gender Budgeting as a Mechanism Design

06/12/2016

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With the commitment of IMF in United Nations Secretary General’s High level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment, the issue of gender budgeting has reached the world stage as a human development-conscious economic growth agenda. 
 
The commitment of IMF in November 2016 to conduct gender budgeting in …

Goods and Services Tax: Fiscal Autonomy vs Tax Disharmony

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02/12/2016

Since the constitution of GST Council on 12th September, 2016, commendable progress has been made towards implementation of this major tax reform in the country. GST council has already arrived at a consensus on the most contentious issue in GST design, i.e., the rate structure. The mechanism of compensation …