trade

MARCH 2009: Hot potato? Climate change hits home for Andean potato farmers

Submitted by globaladmin on Tue, 02/24/2009 - 11:52.
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By Eliza Barclay

FEBRUARY 2009: Taking ceviche global

Submitted by globaladmin on Fri, 02/06/2009 - 16:55.
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By Eliza, Barclay

LIMA, PERU – When Carlos Ygreda launched his family-run, organic goat farm in the impoverished Chillon valley north of Lima in 2001, he found few customers for the three to five kilos of goat cheese he produced per month.

Then Ygreda joined forces with several other small organic producers to organize a weekly organic market in Lima, called the Bioferia. Slowly, venerable Lima chefs like Gaston Acurio began visiting the market, tasting the products and ordering them to serve in their restaurants.

January 2009: Goods for development

Submitted by globaladmin on Thu, 01/08/2009 - 13:57.
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“Yes, but is it ‘Good for Development’?”

Karen Ellis and Jodie Keane, researchers at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), are hoping that becomes a question on the lips of supermarket shoppers around the globe with their proposal of a ‘Good for Development’ label for produce. Their November 2008 review of a basket of existing labels – including Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance, and the GlobalGAP among others – indicated that there may be a market niche for just such a label.

Briefing paper on trade policy and poverty in Peru is published

Submitted by peruadmin on Thu, 05/08/2008 - 01:09.
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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.

Peruvian press highlights the work of COPLA

Submitted by peruadmin on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 18:23.
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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.

Untangling links between trade, poverty and gender

Submitted by globaladmin on Thu, 03/13/2008 - 08:03.
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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

Author:
Nicola Jones and Hayley Baker
Publisher:
ODI

http://www.odi.org.uk/publications/briefing/bp38-mar08-trade-poverty-gen...

Toward a Typology of Civil Society Actors

Submitted by regionaladmin on Thu, 02/07/2008 - 19:08.
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This paper proposes a typology of civil society actors based on organizational attributes and worldviews.

Author:
Manuel Mejido Costoya
Publisher:
Civil Society and Social Movements Programme Paper Number 30 United Nations Research Institute for Social Development

http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BCCF9/(LookupAllDocumentsByUNID)/0451352E376C1031C12573A60044CE42?OpenDocument

Relations between Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean: The partnership phase

Submitted by globaladmin on Fri, 09/12/2008 - 12:59.
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The EU must address it own relations with Latin America and the Caribbean to offer a new and genuine partnership.

ODI Opinion 107

http://www.odi.org.uk/publications/opinions/107-europe-latin-america-car...

Peruvian Female Industrialists and the Globalization Project

Submitted by globaladmin on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 15:18.
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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.

Author:
Bowman

http://gas.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/14/4/540

Effects of Trade Liberalization on the Gender Wage Gap in Mexico

Submitted by globaladmin on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 15:09.
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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

Author:
Artecona, R. and Cunningham, W

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTGENDER/Resources/tradeartecona.pdf

Women in the economy: Review of recent Literature

Submitted by globaladmin on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 15:03.
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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. The article focuses on the main constraints faced by women in the economy such as a lack of access and control of resources, time poverty, gendered labour markets and a lack of access to financial markets, among others.

Author:
USAID Report

http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/cross-cutting_programs/wid/pubs/GATEWomen_...

Gender Indicators for Monitoring trade Agreements

Submitted by globaladmin on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 14:58.
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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

Author:
Van Staveren, I

http://62.149.193.10/wide/download/Staveren%20gender%20indicators%20feb%...

Gender and International Trade in the Context of Pro-Poor Growth: Concept Paper

Submitted by globaladmin on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 14:32.
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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.

Author:
Clones, J.P

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTAFRREGTOPGENDER/Resources/GIntTrad...

Gender and globalization: a macroeconomic perspective

Submitted by globaladmin on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 14:28.
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The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of current knowledge on the relationship between gender inequalities and economic liberalization.

Author:
Cagatay, N and Ertürk,

http://www.econ.utah.edu/activities/confpapers/cagatay&erturk.pdf

Trade, Gender and Poverty

Submitted by globaladmin on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 14:24.
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This paper focuses on the relationship of trade with gender and poverty within the context of the human development paradigm.

Author:
Cagatay, N

http://www.unctad.org/trade_env/test1/topics/pov_tradegenderpoverty_doc....

Modelling the Effects of Trade on Women, at Work and at Home

Submitted by globaladmin on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 14:05.
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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.

Author:
Fontana, M. Wood, A

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VC6-40D0KYX-3/2/882886522...

A Job or Your Rights: Continued Sex Discrimination in the Maquiladora Sector.

Submitted by globaladmin on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 13:55.
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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

Author:
Human Rights Watch

http://www.hrw.org/reports98/women2/

Caribbean Gender and Trade Network the Impact of the Trade Liberalisation on Women’s Livelihoods and Their Response

Submitted by globaladmin on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 13:38.
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This paper focuses on the gender impact of trade on employment with a specific focus on the banana industry.

Author:
NA

http://www.igtn.org/pdfs//359_CGTN%20Beijing%2010%20meets%20WTO10.pdf

The reality of trade in the Americas: a gender perspective

Submitted by globaladmin on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 13:31.
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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.

Author:
Spieldoch, A

http://www.igtn.org/pdfs//TradeintheAmericas.pdf

Trade Liberalization, Inequality and Poverty Reduction in Latin America

Submitted by globaladmin on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 13:21.
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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

Author:
Perry, G. and Olarreage, M.

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTDECABC2006/Resources/GuillermoPerr...

Cut-Flower Exports, Female Labor, and Community Participation in Highland Ecuador

Submitted by globaladmin on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 13:15.
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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

Author:
Korovkin. T

http://www.jstor.org/cgi-bin/jstor/printpage/0094582x/sp040016/04x0146p/...

Peru GATE Project: Pro-Poor Growth, Gender and Markets: Creating opportunities and measuring results in Peru

Submitted by hayley on Thu, 12/06/2007 - 10:14.
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In order to attain economic growth that can benefit women, GATE has produced this report for USAID/Peru.

http://www.onlinedts.com/resources/pubs.cfm

Trade openness, employment and women: the case of Uruguay

Submitted by hayley on Wed, 12/05/2007 - 17:03.
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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.

http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/poedm_m78.en.pdf

Making Trade Work for Women: Opportunities and Obstacles

Submitted by hayley on Wed, 12/05/2007 - 16:33.
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In this paper, Women’s EDGE looks at trade liberalization through a gender-lens, to address the following questions:

http://www.igtn.org/pdfs/89_EDGEprimer.pdf

Gender and Trade: Overview Report

Submitted by hayley on Wed, 12/05/2007 - 16:28.
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The aim of the report is to provide an overview of the links between trade, gender and development.

http://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk/reports/CEP-Trade-OR.pdf

Gender Issues in International Trade

Submitted by hayley on Wed, 12/05/2007 - 15:37.
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The aim of the paper is to show the different effects of trade on men and women.

http://www.igtn.org/pdfs/79_Durano.pdf

Trade and Poverty in Lating America: what we (don't) know and what to do about it

Submitted by globaladmin on Sat, 10/06/2007 - 12:39.
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[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

http://www.obreal.unibo.it/File.aspx?IdFile=909

Developing Countries: Victims or Participants -Their Changing Roles in International Negotiations

Submitted by odiadmin on Fri, 07/27/2007 - 16:58.
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Author:
Sheila Page
Publisher:
ODI

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