The document by Waldo Mendoza (research coordinator for COPLA Peru) titled ‘Trade policy and poverty in Peru. How do free trade agreements (FTA) impact rural poverty?’ presents clearly the existent evidence that links international trade with growth and with poverty as the other side of the same story. The document published by CIES and available in the resources area of COPLA Peru in http://www.cop-la.net/en/node/357 analyses theories on the matter and then focuses on the implementation of the FTA signed with the United States.

The most important newspapers from Peru pointed out as a trade policy mistake the lowering of custom taxes to stop the rise in inflation registered in the country in the last months. This is especially relevant in the context of the free trade agreement (TLC for its acronym in Spanish) that Peru has recently signed with the United States.

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

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

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

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.

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

In order to attain economic growth that can benefit women, GATE has produced this report for USAID/Peru.

Uruguay since the 1970s has slowly undergone a number of changes in its employment structure and productive patterns as a consequence of an increase in trade.

In this paper, Women’s EDGE looks at trade liberalization through a gender-lens, to address the following questions:

The aim of the report is to provide an overview of the links between trade, gender and development.

The aim of the paper is to show the different effects of trade on men and women.

[From Abstrat] On June 19, 2006, policy experts met at a conference on “Trade and Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean”, convened by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and supported b

Negotiations are becoming an increasingly important part of the international system, with the increase particularly marked for developing countries.