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How to Share Public Money Fairly | Maja Bosnic | TED

“We have the right to demand budgets to be equitable, to be fair,” says economist Maja Bosnic. One way to get there is to make them gender-responsive. With examples from the nearly 80 countries around the world already factoring gender into public finance decisions, she shares how budgets that actively account for gender don’t just…

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“We have the right to demand budgets to be equitable, to be fair,” says economist Maja Bosnic. One way to get there is to make them gender-responsive. With examples from the nearly 80 countries around the world already factoring gender into public finance decisions, she shares how budgets that actively account for gender don’t just lead to equality — they’re also more efficient and effective.

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57 Comments

  1. cxme ;; 英語

    March 28, 2022 at 3:51 pm

    What about the subtitles?

  2. Stephen Catton

    March 28, 2022 at 3:52 pm

    So if you didn’t record genders how do you know money didn’t go to women and the word traditionally is such a slimey weasle word in this context. What she should have said is from when women were allowed to own land. I suspect that women have been able to earn land for some time now but she wanted to earn victim points. Equality of outcome is impossible to obtain and is tyrannical in nature. Gender should be relievent when considering biological differences such as pregnancies but all others it is irrelevant and they should concentrate on the individual and their needs as much as possible. Anything else is either racist or sexist.

    • MWhaleK

      March 28, 2022 at 4:34 pm

      You didn’t really listen to this did you?

    • Shway

      March 28, 2022 at 6:31 pm

      the point was that having a land ownership requirement as part of the bureaucratic process created a gender-biased inefficienty. you clown.

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    • Lief Schneider

      March 28, 2022 at 7:52 pm

      Everyone just wants victim points these days…

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  5. Octos Alias

    March 28, 2022 at 3:59 pm

    As an American clearly the answer is to pour trillions into various proxy wars and then say we cant afford healthcare or feeding children

  6. Isaac Groen

    March 28, 2022 at 4:16 pm

    1 minute 25 seconds in: If they didn’t know the farmers gender they couldn’t know the distribution of funds per gender. I think agricultural business are predominantly owned by men due to historical reasons. Therefore distributing most funds to men is not necessarily unfair. If 90% of people are men, 90% of funds should go to men. Adressing the skewed distribution is a different matter entirely.

    • Remy Lebeau

      March 28, 2022 at 6:52 pm

      Yeah, it’s a different matter called “psychotic leftist indoctrination and communist propaganda BS”.

    • Lief Schneider

      March 28, 2022 at 7:48 pm

      Video is just all BS. “They didn’t even know the gender of farmers”, yes because gender doesn’t effing matter. They shouldn’t know because it doesn’t matter, if the concern is that there are farmers that aren’t aware of the funding, then that is something completely different, and still doesn’t matter about gender.

    • Fendula Ratsq

      March 28, 2022 at 8:15 pm

      Ikr lol, this is so dumb and sad to what Ted talks have devolved in. If there are no woman running agricultural business then just survey them and ask why, dont just throw money at woman expecting they want to run farms.

  7. 擬態

    March 28, 2022 at 4:25 pm

    ayoo gibz me dat

  8. Vance H

    March 28, 2022 at 4:47 pm

    Sharing Will Save the World

    • Teofil Žába

      March 28, 2022 at 7:35 pm

      No it won’t. Look at what sharing with Africa ends like. If you share, those people with no conscience will be the first to take, because they will find some reason why they have the right to.
      How is the saying..? Give the man a bread and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to farm and you feed him for the life.
      That has always been the only way.

    • Dialectical Monist

      March 28, 2022 at 9:05 pm

      IT IS LITERALLY STARVING THE WORLD AS WE SPEAK.

      You cultists are absolutely INSANE.

  9. jalalala akalalala

    March 28, 2022 at 4:51 pm

    What is this women talking about, how can you decide how money is distributed based on gender? What if a man was running a women’s shelter? Moron

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    March 28, 2022 at 4:51 pm

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  11. Teofil Žába

    March 28, 2022 at 4:59 pm

    “We have the right to..” These days everyone believes that simply by being born, other people ..or state or someone..something should take care of them…
    Problem of public money is that it must be taken from someone. In my oppinion it should not be available to everyone the same, as not everyone is doing the same for the society.

    • Dialectical Monist

      March 28, 2022 at 9:03 pm

      The people who pay, will face starvation in the third world, while these leftist psychopaths blame it all on Russia and “corporations”.

      It’s jaw dropping to watch this mass insanity unfold in real time.

  12. Vinicius

    March 28, 2022 at 5:01 pm

    DON’T TOUCH MY FUCKING WALLET. “You can’t choose that”. SO IT’S NOT FUCKING FAIR. Amazing that people prefer to figure out how to improve taxation or what to do with the tax-payers money than proposing solutions on the market, i.e., offer it to people and check if they get your product/service voluntarily. If you are using violence to be the foundation of your social structure, it’s not social.

    • Home Wall

      March 28, 2022 at 5:20 pm

      Government is violence and theft via extortion. Even in a democracy, it’s just mob rule to say that might makes right, if I have more people than you, then we can take your money to spend on ourselves. Heck, the US is spending the future’s wealth on itself now, showing how greedy and envious the current crop of citizens are, to take from their own children so they can have wars and bad government now.

  13. Iñaki Gomez Mayol

    March 28, 2022 at 5:16 pm

    Traditionally eoman doesnt own land???? WTF?? Where dies this women come from? Middle age???
    You can tell at every step of her talk how slated her analysis is… appalling video.
    DISLIKE!!!

  14. Home Wall

    March 28, 2022 at 5:17 pm

    There’s no such thing as public money. It’s all money taken from others by force, by extortion, by threat of violence if they don’t pay up.

    • Shway

      March 28, 2022 at 6:21 pm

      who created that money in the first place? where does it get its value?

  15. Tom Nook

    March 28, 2022 at 5:50 pm

    Those comments are… Strange

  16. Michael

    March 28, 2022 at 6:21 pm

    lol this is a good comedy, I like a good laugh

    • Jim Poppa

      March 28, 2022 at 8:48 pm

      Ignorance is bliss.

    • Dialectical Monist

      March 28, 2022 at 9:00 pm

      Except this “comedy” is going to lead to mass starvation and death.

      It’s truly unreal watching these nut jobs destroy our world in real time while people applaud their own demise.

      The psychology of cults.

    • Michael

      March 28, 2022 at 11:52 pm

      @Jim Poppa Very true

  17. Andrew Deegan

    March 28, 2022 at 6:37 pm

    So they gave money to farmers, without knowing the farmers gender. It’s bad because more men got money because they had the land to farm?

  18. Remy Lebeau

    March 28, 2022 at 6:47 pm

    There is no “public money”. The gov’t doesn’t have anything to give that it didn’t first steal from someone else.

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  20. Kevin VanGelder

    March 28, 2022 at 8:22 pm

    There is no such thing as “public money”, only money stolen from the citizens.

  21. Cosmin Croitoru

    March 28, 2022 at 8:50 pm

    This is another level of feminism! F joke!

  22. Dialectical Monist

    March 28, 2022 at 8:57 pm

    People like this are hyperinflating currency, starving people, and causing wars.

    This insanity is destroying our world at an exponential rate.

    Absolutely terrifying.

  23. JoeTube

    March 28, 2022 at 11:14 pm

    Mrs. gender expert, wouldn’t you expect male farmers starting to indentify as female once the government favorises females in subsidies payment?
    After all gender is just a social construct anyway, isn’t it?

  24. Not Again

    March 29, 2022 at 12:23 am

    Agriculture and using technology to improve it is such a good way of fixing the economy of a country . If only people in the third world new that there are advanced ways that are worth investing in as well as the education part of teaching it to youth is important. Please spread such ideas, yet the majority living in under developed countries around the world dont have access to internet or when they finally do they are technilogically illiterate . A bit of brain storming is needed yet with the right steps even if they look simple at first maybe we can end world hunger for good

  25. Jock Campbell

    March 29, 2022 at 1:52 am

    It’s the public’s money. Why should you consider “sharing” it? Leave it where the F**k it belongs!

  26. Charles Dickens

    March 29, 2022 at 2:07 am

    Problem is management is always corruptible and it will fail like all systems.

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    March 29, 2022 at 3:28 am

    Dislikes disabled, cowards. Stand by your terrible, discriminatory policies.

  28. Dheeraj Kumar

    March 29, 2022 at 3:48 am

    Hey

  29. John Strawb

    March 29, 2022 at 4:45 am

    Quintuple taxes on the rich, for starters. Lower them on people who actually work for a living. Anything else is hogwash, merely accepting a grossly corrupt and unfair system.

  30. Not Again

    March 29, 2022 at 8:32 am

    Learning about this changed the way i think about taxes

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      March 29, 2022 at 8:33 am

      And that was the 69 th comment

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    March 29, 2022 at 9:13 am

    🇲🇦 hear hear

  32. Double#C

    March 29, 2022 at 12:26 pm

    Yeah good idea, but a better one would be to not waste resources on the question who will benefit from from fixing a problem and start fixing problems right now.

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    March 29, 2022 at 10:53 pm

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  34. Justin Holmes-Smith

    March 30, 2022 at 3:35 am

    Maybe I didn’t get what she was trying to say but gender budgeting as explained seemed a little ludicrous. She explained that 90% of the farmers were men on the basis of land ownership. Therefore, 90% of the farming subsidizes went to men. There’s nothing necessary wrong with that if those farming men feed 90% of the country. Seams like she was arguing equity not equality. Equity is giving the same amount to two people when one did significantly more work, which is grossly unfair. If 90% of the farming men fed 90% of the country, then equality demands they get 90% of the farming subsidize.

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    March 30, 2022 at 10:22 am

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