Defending Dignity A Manual for National Human Rights Institutions on Monitoring Economic, Social and Cultural Rights EXERCISES 1. Find your country’s most recent enacted budget. Calculate the amount spent on health and education as a ratio of the overall budget. 2. Referring to the following data, as well as the formula on page 108, calculate the Government’s real revenue in 2005 prices. Is it increasing in inflationadjusted terms? What about its expenditure? 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Year CPI Revenue 318.0 359.9 423.3 482.9 538.2 642.6 2005 145.4 Expenditure 343.8 401.1 479.6 572.5 660.5 799.9 2006 154.2 GDP 1415.8 1622.6 1828.8 2077.4 2273.7 2545.5 2007 160.8 2008 186.8 2009 204.0 2010 211.9 REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING Commonwealth Secretariat (2003), Engendering Budgets: A Practitioners’ Guide to Understanding and Implementing Gender-Responsive Budgets Equal in Rights (2011), A Guide to Costing Human Rights Fundar and International Budget Partnership (2004), Dignity Counts: a guide to budget analysis to advance human rights International Budget Partnership (2014), Article 2 and Governments’ Budgets OHCHR (2010), Human Rights in Budget Monitoring, Analysis and Advocacy: Training Guide Women’s Budget Group and Oxfam (2018), Rough Guide to Gender-Responsive Budgeting 110