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.

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).

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.

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.

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

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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.

This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to poverty, including five different perspectives from the disciplines of economics, sociology, anthropology, psychology and institutional economics.

This paper proposes a typology of civil society actors based on organizational attributes and worldviews.

This paper looks at the gendered effects of trade expansion in developing countries.

The paper explores the arguments for considering gender when negotiating and implementing trade agreements.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of current knowledge on the relationship between gender inequalities and economic liberalization.

This paper focuses on the relationship of trade with gender and poverty within the context of the human development paradigm.

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.

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.

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

This paper focuses on the gender impact of trade on employment with a specific focus on the banana industry.

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.

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

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

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

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 in the context of current trade liberalization