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Politics of Trade Policies
Trade Integration and Gender
URL: http://www.igtn.org/page/208/1 This paper provides a literature review that explores the recent developments in the areas of trade and integration and trade and gender within the greater Caribbean. The paper provides detailed and analytical sections on three main themes; globalisation, regional integration related to trade liberalisation, and the gender issues of trade liberalisation.
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.
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.
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
Trade, Gender and Equity in Latin America: Generating Knowledge for Political Action
URL: http://reseau.crdi.ca/es/ev-97884-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html This project is part of the Latin American Chapter of the International Gender and Trade Network (LA-IGNT).
Trade Integration and Gender
URL: http://www.igtn.org/page/208/1 This paper provides a literature review that explores the recent developments in the areas of trade and integration and trade and gender within the greater Caribbean.
Caribbean GTN - A Literature Review: Gender, Trade, and Investment
URL: http://www.igtn.org/pdfs//TradeintheAmericas.pdf The author reviews the literature on gender, trade and investment in the English-speaking regions of the Caribbean.
Trade openness, employment and women: the case of Uruguay
URL: http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/poedm_m78.en.pdf 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.
Updated Fact Sheet: Gender Impacts of CAFTA
URL: http://www.igtn.org/page/446/1 The fact sheet looks at the potential gender impacts of the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) on women in Central America.
Making Trade Work for Women: Opportunities and Obstacles
URL: http://www.igtn.org/pdfs/89_EDGEprimer.pdf In this paper, Women’s EDGE looks at trade liberalization through a gender-lens, to address the following questions:
Gender and Trade: Overview Report
URL: http://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk/reports/CEP-Trade-OR.pdf The aim of the report is to provide an overview of the links between trade, gender and development.
Trade and gender - are the agreements of WTO a trap for women?
URL: http://www.vguengl.org/medialibrary/files/1_0511WTOgenusohandelinenglish.pdf This paper provides a general overview of the relationship between trade and gender, with the purpose of exploring whether international trade changes, maintains or reinforces existing gender structur
Survey of research on gender and trade: insights, gaps and coverage
URL: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/csgr/activitiesnews/workshops/2006ws/gender_and_trade/marzia_fontana.pdf This paper reviews recent studies on the gender effects of trade reforms so as to highlight the gaps in the literature and suggest areas where research can be furthered both empirically and methodolog
Gender Issues in International Trade
URL: http://www.igtn.org/pdfs/79_Durano.pdf The aim of the paper is to show the different effects of trade on men and women.
Trade and Poverty in Lating America: what we (don't) know and what to do about it
URL: http://www.obreal.unibo.it/File.aspx?IdFile=909 [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
The Trade Policy Making Process: Level One of the Two Level Game
Publisher: Inter-American Development Bank 'This publication reports the results of a project on trade policy-making in eight Western Hemisphere nations jointly conducted by the IDB's INTAL and ITD, the University of Toronto's Munk Centre for
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