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    Women in the Market: A Manual for Popular Economic Literacy

    Network Women in Development Europe, 2000
    Designed for WIDE's popular economics training, this manual combines a popular education framework with economic literacy tools to develop a better understanding of the fundamental workings of a market economy. It provides information on the particulars of the current economy: globalisation, restructuring, fluctuations (unemployment, inflation) and the WTO.
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    Women, the State and Labour Rights Activism: The Role of Women's Organisations in Improving Labour Standards in Nicaragua

    Central American Women’s Network, 2005
    Maria Elena Cuadra (MEC) is an NGO set up in 1994 by leaders of the Women's Secretariat of the Sandinista Workers' Central (CST) trade union in Nicaragua. MEC was established in the light of the failure of the union to take women's concerns into account. As MEC is an NGO not a union, they were initially excluded from formal labour negotiations.
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    Gender Impacts of Trade Policies in Latin America: Progress and Challenges for Research and Action

    2003
    What has been the impact of civil society on the formulation and implementation of trade agreements in the Americas? This paper offers an overview of gender and trade research - including on employment, gender segregation in the labour market, salary gaps, and the impact of trade on productive and reproductive spheres.
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    Fair Trade: Gender Makes the Difference

    World Conservation Union, 2004
    Fair trade is crucial for sustainable development. It provides better trading conditions to marginalised producers and workers, particularly women. This short briefing note outlines the importance of ensuring that fair trade initiatives incorporate a gender perspective.
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    Business and Gender Equality Lessons from South Africa

    BRIDGE, 2002
    By promoting opportunities for women, employers improve their ability to secure quality personnel from a wider range of job applicants as well as using the different assets that both men and women bring to the workplace. More fundamentally, if business is to be sustainable in the long run, gender inequality needs to be taken more seriously.
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    Supporting Potential Women Exporters: A Case Study of the Northern Homebased Workers Network, Thailand

    APEC Committee on Trade and Investment, 2004
    The Thai Northern Homebased Workers' Network (NHWN) was founded in 2000 to support women producers of cotton woven fabrics, basketry, woodcarving and other traditional handicrafts. It is a network of 2400 members, 90 per cent women, from 64 village groups in nine provinces which aims to increase its members' collective bargaining power, skills, business management and leadership.
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    76.8% of the Sky: Gender, Poverty and Development in Hong Kong

    2005
    76.8% is the proportion of employed women in Hong Kong whose income was under the poverty line (5000 HKD) in 2003. In spite of the feminization of poverty, the government ignores gender equality in it's poverty alleviation strategy. The only issues tackled which address women's interests are children's poverty within the family, and trans-generational poverty.
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    Mainstreaming Informal Employment and Gender in Poverty Reduction: A Handbook for Policy-makers and Other Stakeholders

    Commonwealth Secretariat, 2004
    What is the relationship between gender inequality and work in the informal economy? How do we promote good working conditions for poor and vulnerable groups? Street vendors, workers in Export Processing Zones (EPZs) and small farmers are quite visible in the informal economy.
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    Gender Mainstreaming in Development Cooperation Ireland Country Strategy Papers (CSP)

    Development Cooperation Ireland, 2005
    Development assistance is currently undergoing a shift from project-based funding to centralised support for national budgets. These new aid modalities are country-led and based on principles of donor coordination and policy dialogue.
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    Tackling the Causes of Trafficking

    Anti-Trafficking Centre, Serbia, 1990
    How can the causes of trafficking be addressed? The Anti-Trafficking Centre (ATC) in Belgrade, an NGO, works to combat trafficking from Serbia and Montenegro and the region by tackling the causes of trafficking such as gender-based violence, poverty, unemployment and lack of opportunities.

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