Gender Implication of National BudgetEvidence from Bangladesh

Nuren Nirvana Brishti

The Gender Responsive Budget (GRB) is widely recognized as an effective tool to study for gender inclusive development, which in turn will create an endeavor on the improvement of socio-economic factor, economic growth and a sustainable long-term development. Being a developing country, Bangladesh has overcome some major constrains in gender issues along with a spectacular progress in female education, maternal health, female participation in the labor force, mitigating poverty via empowering women, political and electoral participation of women; internationally which has been highly appreciated. The government of Bangladesh has highly prioritized the gender budgeting policy, which is thought to be one of the major causes behind this huge success. This study has worked out a splendid compatibility of national budget and gender budget, over the period and has concluded, that the government of Bangladesh is progressively turning pro gender. Moreover, based on the data on the category of female, primary school enrollment, life expectancy at birth, fertility rate and labor force participation; are examined with HDI (Human Development Index). Which suggests improvement in the gender budget may have a major impact onraising the value of HDI, as both are following an increasing trend.