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Area of Expertise

Macroeconomic policy, defense budgets, social service budgets, women's budgets, minorities' budgets, and equality issues in Israel.

Publications

• Two Year Budget Not Appropriate for Israel: Letter to Legislators, by Shlomo Swirski, March 2010
• Through a Gender Lens 09/10: Looking at the National Budget Proposal and the Budget Arrangements Law for Fiscal Years 2009-2010, by Barbara Swirski, July 2009
• Social Rights in Israel: Inferior Legal Status and Insufficient Budgets, by Noga Dagan-Buzaglo, January 2007

Major Current Activities

• Leadership of a Women's Budget Forum to advocate for engendering budgets
• Ongoing analysis of changes in national budget and tax laws and their effects on the poor and middle class