Social and Economic Policy

Documents and publications

Social budgeting and public finance

The document repository contains key resources on budgeting for children. The documents in the first table were produced by UNICEF and the second table includes publications from other organisations. This list is organised in chronological order, with the most recent documents appearing at the top of the list.


 

 

UNICEF resources

TITLE AUTHOR / ORGANIZATION DATE
Accountability and MDGs: Methodology for measuring government performance for global goals Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Joshua Greenstein
UNICEF		 2011
UNICEF, Economists and Economic Policy: Bringing children into development strategies Sir Richard Jolly
UNICEF		 2011
Identifying Fiscal Space: Options for Social and Economic Development for Children and Poor Households in 184 Countries Isabel Ortiz, Jingqing Chai, and Matthew Cummins
UNICEF		 2011
Policy Matters, Edition 1 (October 2011) Division of Policy and Practice
UNICEF		 2011
Advancing the Rights of Children, Women and Poor Families through Better Public Finance Policies Social Policy and Economic Analysis Unit
UNICEF		 2010
Challenges and Trajectories of Fiscal Policy and PFM Reform in CEE/CIS Branka Andjelkovic, Alexandr Chubrik, Marek Dabrowski, Roman Mogilevskiy, Irina Sinitsina and Przemyslaw Wozniak
UNICEF		 2010
Child Friendly Budgets for 2010 and Beyond Ronald Mendoza and Darryl McLeod
UNICEF		 2010
Children in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers and Budgets: Senegal Perspectives Ian MacAuslan and Abdou Salam Fall
UNICEF and Oxford Policy Management		 2010
Fiscal Space and Public Spending for Children in Senegal UNICEF and Oxford Policy Management 2010
Inclusive Crises, Exclusive Recoveries, and Policies to Prevent a Double Whammy for the Poor Ronald Mendoza
UNICEF		 2010
UNICEF's Role in Upstream Policy: Social Budgeting for Children Ronald Mendoza
UNICEF		 2010
Aggregate Shocks, Poor Household and Children: Transmission Channels and Policy Responses Ronald Mendoza
UNICEF		 2009
Child Budget Analysis: Jordan 2009 Ian Mackenzie and Adrienne Shall
UNICEF		 2009
Moving Toward Free Primary Education: Policy Issues and Implementation Challenges H. Dean Nielsen
UNICEF		 2009
Reconstructing Well-being After a Disaster: Bringing Public Service to Those Who Need Them Most in China Hana Brixi
UNICEF		 2009
Millet Prices, Public Policy and Child Malnutrition: The Case of Niger in 2005 Giovanni Andrea Cornia and Laura Deotti
UNICEF - Innocenti Research Centre		 2008
Provincial Budget Allocations in the Health, Education and Water Sectors: An Analysis 2003-2006 Simon McCoy and Imarciana Cunamizana
UNICEF		 2008
Accelerating Girls' Education in Yemen: Rethinking Policies in Teacher Recruitment and School Distribution Abdul Alim, Kamel Ben Abdallah, Solofo Ramaroson, Maman Sikikou and Lieke Van De Wiel
UNICEF		 2007
Can the Kenyan State Put the 300,000 Most Vulnerable Children in the Country on a Cash Transfer Programme by the End of 2010? K. Allen, P. Campbell, S. Chatterjee, Oca Ismail, R. Pearson and M. Renshaw
UNICEF		 2007
Child Benefits and Poverty Reducation: Evidence from Mongolia's Child Money Programme Anthony Hodges, Khurelmaa Dashdorj, Kang Yun Jong, Anne-Claire Dufay, Uranchimeg Budragchaa and Tuya Mungun
UNICEF		 2007
Child Budgeting in India: Analysis of Recent Allocations in the Union Budget Dr. Loveleen Kacker
UNICEF		 2007
Eliminating Gender Dispartity in Primary Education: The Case of Turkey Edmond McLoughney, Maria-Luisa Fornara, Sandar Zavarko and Kerry L. Neal
UNICEF		 2007
Investing in Rwanda: Effective Choices for Orphans and Girls in Primary Education Valerie Taton, Charles Nabongo, Ikem Chiejine and Aloys Kamuragiye
UNICEF		 2007
Public Resources in India: A Study of the Budgets of Rajasthan Subrat Das, Debdulal Thakur, Ramgati Singh adn Satadru Sikdar
UNICEF		 2007
Social Budgeting in Kenya: Concepts and Practice Jay Chaubey
UNICEF		 2007
Social Budgeting: Investments in Kenya's Future Elizabeth Gibbons and Heimo Laakkonen
UNICEF		 2007
Social Welfare and Family Benefits in Estonia Uvre Kask
UNICEF		 2006
Impact of Tax and Transfer Systems on Children in the European Union Miles Corak, Christine Lietz and Holly Sutherland
Innocenti Research Centre		 2005

   

Other resources

TITLE AUTHOR / ORGANIZATION DATE
Budget for Children Analysis: A Beginner's Guide Save the Children and HAQ: Centre for Child Rights 2010
Global Economic Prospects 2010: Crisis, Finance, and Growth Justin Yifu Lin
World Bank		 2010
Reaching the Marginalized Kevin Watkins
UNESCO		 2010
Guideline for Gender Sensitive Budgeting on Girls' Education in Ethiopia Ministry of Finance and Economic Development and Ministry of Education
UNICEF and the British Council		 2009
The Implications of the Global Financial Crisis for Low Income Countries Hugh Bredenkamp, Sanjeev Gupta, Jonathan Ostry, and Christopher Towe (Eds)
International Monetary Fund		 2009
Can Low Income Countries Afford Basic Social Security? Social Security Department
International Labour Office		 2008
Mapping Aid Effectiveness and Gender Equality: Global Findings L. Chiwara and M. Karadenizli
EC/UN Partnership on Gender Equality for Development and Peace		 2008
Review of Gender Budget Initiatives Debbie Budlender
Community Agency for Social Enquiry		 2008
Budgeting and budgetary institutions Anwar Shaw
World Bank		 2007
Financing for Development: Aid Effectiveness and Gender-Responsive Budgets D. Budlender
Community Agency for Social Enquiry		 2007
'Growing Pains': Key Challenges for New Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes in Latin America Fablo Veras Soares and Tatiana Britto
Interational Poverty Centre		 2007
Improving child focused spending in local bodies in Andhra Pradesh: Constraints and opportunities Paola Pereznieto, Gopinath Reddy and K. Mayuri
Young Lives Project		 2007
Participatory budgeting Anwar Shah
World Bank		 2007
Public Spending and Outcomes: Does Governance Matter? Andrew Sunil Rajkumar and Vinaya Swaroop
Elsevier		 2007
Budget Analysis and Policy Advocacy: The Role of Nongovernmental Public Action Mark Robinson
Institute of Development Studies		 2006
Budgeting for Women's Rights: Monitoring Government Budgets for Compliance with CEDAW D. Elson
UNIFEM		 2006
Gender Budgeting J. G. Stotsky
International Monetary Fund		 2006
Citizen Participation and Pro-poor Budgeting Division for Public Administration and Development Management
UNDESA		 2005
Social Transfers and Chronic Poverty: Emerging Evidence and the Challenges Ahead DfID
DfID		 2005
The People's Budget? Politics, Participation and Pro-poor Policy Deborah Brautigam
Development Policy Review		 2004
Budgeting for equity: Gender budget initiatives within a framework of performance oriented budgeting R. Sharp
UNIFEM		 2003
Economics and Violent Conflict Macartan Humphreys
Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Management		 2003
How citizen's participate in macroeconomic policy: International experience and implications for poverty reducation Derek Brinkerhoff and Arthur Goldsmith
Elsevier Science		 2003
Gender Budgets Make More Cents: Country Studies and Good Practice Dabbie Budlender and Guy Hewitt
Commonwealth Secretariat		 2002
What is behind the budget? Politics, rights and accountability in the budgeting process Andy Norton and Diane Elson
Department for International Development		 2002
Taste of success: Examples of the budget work of NGOs International Budget Project
International Budget Project		 2000

 

 

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