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Two Chicken Stories: NAFTA's Real Winners and Losers
URL: http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5159 The single most important thing to understand about NAFTA is who are the winners and the losers. The international system is rigged to strengthen the hand of mega-corporations and weaken small farmers, workers, women producers, and migrants. These interconnected chicken anecdotes illustrate the realities of NAFTA.
Latin America and the Caribbean: Intellectual property after the FTAs
URL: http://www.eclac.cl/cgi-bin/getProd.asp?xml=/publicaciones/xml/4/32614/P32614.xml&xsl=/tpl/p9f.xsl&base=/tpl/top-bottom.xslt Publisher: CEPAL Over the past five years, 10 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have signed free trade agreements (FTAs) with the United States containing extensive chapters of provisions on intellectual property rights. The aim is to boost the protection of intellectual property rights, and, in some respects, the provisions in the FTAs go beyond the scope of those set forth in the 1994 WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).
Collective action for innovation and small farmer market access: the Papa Andina experience
URL: http://www.eldis.org/cf/rdr/?doc=35739 Publisher: CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action (2007) The Andean highlands are home to some of the poorest rural households in South America. Native potato varieties and local knowledge for their cultivation and use are unique resources possessed by farmers in these areas. This paper reports on how the Papa Andina Regional Initiative is promoting the use of collective action to reduce poverty in the Andes, by developing market niches and adding value to potatoes, particularly the native potatoes grown by poor farmers.
The Andean Crisis and the Geopolitics of Trade
URL: http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5101 Publisher: IRC Americas Program Even for a continent famed for volatile political relations, the events of the Andean crisis passed by with dizzying speed and dangerous passions. Accusations tossed back and forth went way beyond the exchange of insults common in the past, and revealed deep fissures and mistrust among nations in the hemisphere. The immediate crisis has been averted. But the geopolitical divisions in the region threaten to lead to more conflicts in the near future.
Untangling links between trade, poverty and gender
URL: http://www.odi.org.uk/publications/briefing/bp38-mar08-trade-poverty-gender.pdf Publisher: ODI This is the latest Briefing Paper from ODI for COPLA. It argues that: Changes in employment, prices and social expenditures are three pathways linking trade and gender; Trade liberalisation may have positive or negative impacts, but there are risks for women; Trade reforms must be complemented by social and labour policies to ensure that women can take full advantage of the new economic environment
Poor Women Still Lag Behind
URL: http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/pub/IPCOnePager49.pdf Publisher: IPC One Pager #49 Latin America’s MDG Progress on Gender Equality: Poor Women Still Lag Behind – One Pager # 49
DFID's Experience with Integrated Approaches Supporting SME Growth
URL: http://www.afdb.org/pls/portal/url/ITEM/23F1214EB17B8916E040C00A0C3D0A62 Publisher: DFID DFID's experience with integrated approaches to support SME growth. It is a short presentation outlining the approach and some of the roles that donors can take.
Many Dimensions of Poverty
URL: http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/book.htm Publisher: Palgrave This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to poverty, including five different perspectives from the disciplines of economics, sociology, anthropology, psychology and institutional economics.
Toward a Typology of Civil Society Actors
URL: http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BCCF9/(LookupAllDocumentsByUNID)/0451352E376C1031C12573A60044CE42?OpenDocument Publisher: Civil Society and Social Movements Programme Paper Number 30 United Nations Research Institute for Social Development This paper proposes a typology of civil society actors based on organizational attributes and worldviews.
A gender-analytical perspective on trade and sustainable development
URL: http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/poedm_m78.en.pdf This paper looks at the gendered effects of trade expansion in developing countries.
Analyses on Trade and Integration in the Americas: Gender Issues in Trade Policy-Making
URL: http://www.sice.oas.org/Genderandtrade/GenderIssuesinTP_e.asp The paper explores the arguments for considering gender when negotiating and implementing trade agreements.
Peruvian Female Industrialists and the Globalization Project
URL: http://gas.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/14/4/540 The main aim of the paper is to explore the female industrialists struggle for personal independence and entrepreneurial success in the aftermath of Peru’s adoption of Neo-liberal policies.
Effects of Trade Liberalization on the Gender Wage Gap in Mexico
URL: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTGENDER/Resources/tradeartecona.pdf The authors study the manufacturing sector in urban Mexico during the trade liberalization period (1987-1993) in order to establish if there was a change in the gender wage gap after opening up to com
Enhancing Women’s Access to Markets: an Overview of Donor Programs and Best Practice
URL: http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/cross-cutting_programs/wid/pubs/Best_Practices_Market_Access_Women_Oct_2005.pdf
Women in the economy: Review of recent Literature
URL: : http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/cross-cutting_programs/wid/pubs/GATEWomen_EconomyFeb2006.pdf This USAID literature review explores the role of women in the economy and why the inclusion of gender issues is crucial to the success of economic development programs.
Gender Indicators for Monitoring trade Agreements
URL: http://62.149.193.10/wide/download/Staveren%20gender%20indicators%20feb%2007.pdf?id=290 Due to insufficient research on the different impacts of trade agreements on women and men and on the two-way relationship between gender and trade, the objective of this paper is to develop a tool fo
Gender Equality at the Heart of Development
URL: http://www.dfid.gov.uk/pubs/files/gender-equality.pdf This briefing note starts out by looking at the recent evidence linking gender equality and growth before analysing policies necessary to promote growth and gender equality.
Gender and International Trade in the Context of Pro-Poor Growth: Concept Paper
URL: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTAFRREGTOPGENDER/Resources/GIntTrade.pdf The main objective of the author is to outline the linkages between gender disparities and international trade in SSA and highlight the importance of evaluating trade through a gender lens.
Gender and globalization: a macroeconomic perspective
URL: http://www.econ.utah.edu/activities/confpapers/cagatay&erturk.pdf The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of current knowledge on the relationship between gender inequalities and economic liberalization.
Trade, Gender and Poverty
URL: http://www.unctad.org/trade_env/test1/topics/pov_tradegenderpoverty_doc.pdf This paper focuses on the relationship of trade with gender and poverty within the context of the human development paradigm.
Modelling the Effects of Trade on Women, at Work and at Home
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VC6-40D0KYX-3/2/8828865222c74561824b568e6b46d21d The paper assesses how well a gendered social accounting matrix (SAM) and computable general equilibrium (CGE) model can capture the effects of trade on women.
Global trade, expansion and liberalisation: gender issues and impacts
URL: http://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk/reports/re42c.pdf The main objective of this paper is to provide an in-depth study on gender and trade and to identify the gaps in the literature.
A Job or Your Rights: Continued Sex Discrimination in the Maquiladora Sector.
URL: http://www.hrw.org/reports98/women2/ This report is based on a series of interviews conducted between May and November 1997, with women’s rights activists, maquiladora workers, labour rights activists, Mexican and US government officia
Caribbean Gender and Trade Network the Impact of the Trade Liberalisation on Women’s Livelihoods and Their Response
URL: http://www.igtn.org/pdfs//359_CGTN%20Beijing%2010%20meets%20WTO10.pdf This paper focuses on the gender impact of trade on employment with a specific focus on the banana industry.
The reality of trade in the Americas: a gender perspective
URL: http://www.igtn.org/pdfs//TradeintheAmericas.pdf The author provides a detailed description of NAFTA, the FTAA, CAFTA, the Andean FTA and MERCOSUR before analysing the impacts these trade agreements have on regional integration.
Trade Liberalization, Inequality and Poverty Reduction in Latin America
URL: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTDECABC2006/Resources/GuillermoPerry.PDF This paper looks at the effects of trade liberalization in Latin America in the late eighties and early nineties and concludes that the increase in wage inequality was due to: (1) relative factor endo
Cut-Flower Exports, Female Labor, and Community Participation in Highland Ecuador
URL: http://www.jstor.org/cgi-bin/jstor/printpage/0094582x/sp040016/04x0146p/0.pdf?backcontext=page&dowhat=Acrobat&config=jstor&userID=3ead4562@odi.org.uk/01c0a8346500501d1e5ff&0.pdf The author explores the effects of an increase in cut-flower exports in the Ecuadorian highlands as a result of trade liberalisation and the relocation of cut-flower plantations from Colombia to Ecuad
Gender and Free Trade: Peruvian Alternative Trade Organizations and Women's Projects
URL: http://www.globaljusticecenter.org/papers2005/henrici_eng.htm This paper reviews the issue of gender and trade within the global economy, and considers the general topic with specific concern for the case of alternative trade organizations (ATOs) set up to help
Developing Countries in International Trade 2007: Trade and Development Index
URL: http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/ditctab20072_en.pdf United Nations Conference on Trade and Development -UNCTAD- (2007). Developing Countries in International Trade 2007: Trade and Development Index. http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/ditctab20072_en.pdf
International trade and sustainable tourism in Chile: Preliminary assessment of the sustainability of tourism in Chile
URL: http://www.tradeknowledgenetwork.net/publication.aspx?id=901 Publisher: Trade Knowledge Network - IISD International trade and sustainable tourism in Chile: Preliminary assessment of the sustainability of tourism in Chile in the context of current trade liberalization |
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