日本評価研究4巻1号 The Japanese Journal of Evaluation Studies Vol. 4, No. 1

【実践・調査報告：依頼原稿】 Response to the 2002 Pre Budget Report by THE WOMEN'S BUDGET GROUP 《PDFで全文ダウンロード》 Women's Budget Group wbg@fawcettsociety.org.uk 要　約 　The Women's Budget Group (WBG) in the UK is an independent organization co-chaired by the author bringing together academics and people from NGOs and trades unions to promote gender equality through appropriate economic policy. This paper is a gender-based assessment of the 2002 Pre Budget Report of the Government, in which the WBG raises recommendations on long term public spending policy, policies for productivity, public sector procurement, initiatives to improve employment opportunities, the National Minimum Wage, and basic state pension. It is pointed out that economic forecasts should allow for an increasing proportion of GDP to be devoted to spending on caring and other face-to-face services to provide quality services and decent wages. The WBG recommends that the rate of the National Minimum Wage should be raised to ensure a living wage, and that the problem of women's poverty in later life should be addressed by linking the basic state pension to earnings growth. キーワード women's budget, gender equality, productivity gap, public spending, decent wages, national minimum wage