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  BRIDGE Bibliography 13: Gender and Migration in Asia: Overview and Annotated Bibliography

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  Labour markets have been transformed by the process of globalisation and migration in recent decades, and this transformation has had important but varied gendered dimensions and impacts. This bibliography highlights the key gender issues and concerns in relation to voluntary economic migration in Asia, both internal and cross-border.
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  The Power to Choose: Bangladeshi Women and Labour Market Decisions in London and Dhaka

  Verso Press, 2000

  In this study the lives of Bangladeshi garment workers are examined to highlight the question of what constitutes 'fair' competition in international trade. While Bangladesh is generally considered a poor, conservative Muslim country, with a long tradition of female seclusion, women here have entered factories to take their place as a prominent first generation labour force.
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  Customs and Excise

  2000

  How have women fared under trade liberalisation as workers, traders and consumers? This paper from the fifth year of the Women's Budget Initiative in South Africa, tackles customs and excise as a new area of gender budget analysis. It argues that South African women suffer from trade liberalisation (i. e.
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  Transcending Boundaries: Labour Migration of Women from Bangladesh

  University Press Limited, Dhaka, 2001

  In recent times a major structuring of the global economy has taken place. This, among other things, has resulted in an increase in short-term migration of labour. An important feature of such restructuring is a high demand for female labour. A large number of Bangladeshi women have responded to such demand and joined the labour markets of Middle East and South East Asian countries.
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  An Introduction to the General Agreement on Trade in Services for Gender Advocates

  2001

  This short piece provides an introduction to the WTO's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). GATS is problematic because it encourages the privatisation of public services and amenities such as water, healthcare and education; it threatens to overrule domestic laws where these are perceived to hinder free trade; and the propositions within the agreement remain untested.
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  Trade Liberalization: Impacts on African Women

  2001

  Trade liberalisation processes impact differently on men and women due to the fact that men and women have different roles in production. Despite the fact that women are actively involved in international trade, WTO agreements are gender blind and as such have adverse impacts on women.
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  The Asian Financial Crisis: Hearing Women's Voices

  1999

  What has been the impact of the Asian financial crisis on women? This occasional paper aims to make the voices of women heard. It analyses some of the most important factors that caused the Asian crisis and its social consequences for women, such as unemployment and underemployment, increasing prices of household goods and cuts in public services.
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  What are Effective Ways for Organizing Women Informal Sector Workers?

  Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2002

  Governments and NGOs are now seeing the importance of measures which help women in the informal sector to increase their incomes, gain access to financial services and training, and ensure their greater participation in national economies and processes of economic development.
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  Basic Building Blocks for a Gender and Trade Analysis

  2002

  What do we mean by gender? Why is gender important? What does a gender analysis look like? How do I apply a gender analysis specifically to international trade and investment? Economic policies, institutions and relationships utilise, reinforce and sometimes transform every country's social relationships and all forms of inequality therefore a gender analysis of trade is crucial.
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  Government of India Budget 2000-2001 and Gender

  BRIDGE, 2000

  The Government of India's Budget 2000-2001 was presented by the Finance Minister on February 29, 2000. This paper presents the first step towards a gender-sensitive analysis of the budget.

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