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  Women and Agribusiness: Working Miracles in the Chilean Fruit Export Sector

  Macmillan Education Ltd, London and Oxford, 1999

  The feminisation of the agriculture and agro-industrial labour force in Chile is the outcome of the worldwide process of globalisation and Chile's shift to a neo-liberal model of development since the mid-1970s. Fresh fruit exported from Chile and many other developing nations has increased dramatically.
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  Gender, Flexibility and Global Value Chains

  BRIDGE, 2001

  Analysis of value chains incorporates all aspects from design, through production to final distribution and consumption. These activities are embedded within prevailing gender relations that affect value chains at every stage, however gender is often overlooked. Conversely the operation of value chains can affect the prevailing gender division of labour in different localities.
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  Economic Policy and Women's Informal Work in South Africa

  2001

  The South African Government's trade and industrial policies are shifting the economy onto a path of capital intensification. Allied to this, firms are undergoing a process of extensive restructuring. The restructuring process in labour intensive industries has resulted in massive job losses in sectors that have traditionally employed large numbers of women.
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  Women and Labour Market Changes in the Global Economy: Growth Helps, Inequalities Hurt and Public Policy Matters

  1999

  Significant inefficiencies arise from persistent gender differentials in the labour market and the resulting losses are borne primarily by women. The paper concludes that inequalities can have significantly adverse effects on welfare, and market-based development alone can be a weak instrument for reducing inequality between the sexes.
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  Gender Aspects of the Cotonou Agreement

  2001

  In June 2000, a new Partnership Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states and the European Union (EU) was signed in Cotonou, Benin. The Cotonou Agreement sets out the general framework for the ACP states and the EU development co-operation relations for the next twenty years. As compared to its predecessor, Lom?
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  Trade Myths and Gender Reality: Trade Liberalisation and Women's Lives

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 1998

  This publication draws together concepts, policy and case studies on what has been the impact of trade liberalisation on women workers.
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  Global Feminization Through Flexible Labour: a Theme Revisited

  1999

  The types of employment and labour force participation traditionally associated with women (insecure, low paid, irregular) has been spreading relative to the type of employment traditionally associated with men (regular, unionised, stable).
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  The Effects of Globalization and the East Asian Crisis on the Employment of Women and Men: the Philippine Case

  Commission for Racial Equality, 2000

  Research has shown that men and women are affected differently by stabilisation and structural adjustment policies, as well as by globalisation. The focus of this article is to analyse the differential employment impacts on and vulnerabilities of women and men caused by the East Asian economic crisis.
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  International Capital Flows: Identifying the Gender Dimension

  Center of Concern, COC, 2000

  Women lose more than men from slow or unstable economic growth and financial crises. Although the increased liberalisation of trade has been given considerable attention there has been little exploration of the gender implications of financial liberalisation.
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  Women's Economic Agenda in the 21st Century

  International Gender and Trade Network, 2001

  The United Nations (UN) has been a catalyst for the emergence of the global women's movement however UN conference documents are flawed because they are negotiated in the self-interest of nation states; therefore the women's agenda is always in danger of co-option.

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