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  Trade, Gender and Employment Issues

  BRIDGE, 2000

  While there are some case studies providing evidence of impact on employment of women at the micro level in India, there is a lack of evidence on impact on female intensity of employment across various export sectors at the macro level.
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  BRIDGE Bibliography 12: Gender and Economic Globalisation: An Annotated Bibliography

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002

  This bibliography gives annotations of 52 texts on gender and economic globalisation. The texts are divided into three main sections: the impact of globalisation; trade agreements, policy and financial institutions; and responses to globalisation. The overview featured at the beginning of the bibliography provides a guide to the annotated texts.
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  Instruments for Gender Equality in Trade Agreements

  2001

  Because economic policies are not gender-neutral, this document proposes a set of indicators which allow an initial analysis of the effects of trade policies and expansion on women and gender relations.
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  International Trade and Gender Inequality: A Gender Analysis of the Trade Agreements Between the European Union and Latin America

  Network Women in Development Europe, 2001

  This publication explores how due to women's economic and social inequality to men trade agreements affect men and women differently. For this reason, it argues for the development and institutionalisation of gender equality in trade relations and agreements.
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  The Social Content of Macroeconomic Policies

  2000

  Globalisation has intensified social exclusion and marginalisation of the poor and other groups. Therefore Elson and Cagatay argue that macro-economic polices should not be based on market-based criteria per se, but should be driven by whether they bring societies closer to achieving social justice, including gender justice.
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  Engendering Foreign Direct Investment: Family Structure, Labor Markets and International Capital Mobility

  2000

  The author of this paper develops an economic model based on a female labour- intensive export sector and a male labour-intensive domestic goods sector. This model brings out the interactions of the productive and reproductive economies by showing how gender relations in the household influence foreign direct investment.
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  Gender Focus on the WTO

  Global Publications Foundation, 1999

  There is abundant research on the subject that proves that trade rules and agreements affect women and men differently. This book offers a series of articles presenting some of these findings and testimonies about action to address the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) current gender blindness.
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  Women Working with the NAFTA Food Chain, Women, Food and Globalization

  Second Story Press, 1999

  Efforts to develop sustainable food systems must take into account the role of women in the various stages of production, preparation and consumption of the food we eat. This collection of research makes connections in Canada, the US and Mexico among women who work in fast-food restaurants, supermarkets and agricultural production.
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  Women Resist Globalization: Mobilizing for Livelihoods and Rights

  Zed Books Limited, 2001

  Women in the North and South have struggled to protect the environment and reproductive rights, mobilised against poverty and racism, fought the inequalities imposed by structural adjustment policies (SAPs) and campaigned for human rights.
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  Gender Implications of the "New" Economic Policy: a Conceptual Overview

  1999

  Economic reforms under the 'New Structural Adjustment Programme' in India include the de-regulation of the economy to allow free market forces to operate unhindered. With increasing global economic competition, employment conditions have declined and government spending on social welfare services has decreased.

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