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  Trade, Sustainable Development and Gender: papers presented in support of the themes discussed at the Pre-UNCTAD X Expert Workshop on Trade, Sustainable Development and Gender, 12-13 July, 1999, Geneva, Switzerland

  Forum News, 1999

  The Pre-UNCTAD Expert Workshop on Trade, Sustainable Development and Gender focused on the role of employment in the eradication of poverty and on women's empowerment. UNCTAD has always been concerned with examining patterns of trade with a view to assessing its contribution to development.
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  Female Employment Under Export-propelled Industrialization: Prospects for Internalizing Global Opportunities in Bangladesh's Apparel Sector

  Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 1999

  Women entering the industrial labour force in Bangladesh generally find themselves in low paid, low skilled jobs. In fact this paper argues that the success of the country's export-oriented industry is built on a large supply of cheap and flexible female labour.
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  The Gender Dimension of Economic Transition in Mongolia

  2000

  To study economic transition in Mongolia, the authors of this article introduce a macro-economic model that incorporates both the productive and reproductive economies thereby making it possible to link economic objectives with social development ones.
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  LDCs in a Globalizing World: a Strategy for Gender Balanced Sustainable Development

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 1999

  Market liberalisation has led to the pricing of natural resources on which women often depend, increased health risk due to increased responsibilities and worsening food security problems.
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  The Globalized Women: Reports from a Future of Inequality

  Spinifex Press, 1998

  Globalisation has led to growth without jobs in the North, structural adjustment in the South, privatisation in the East and the dismantling of states everywhere. It is also a process which depends on the feminisation of employment. Rather than liberating women in to the workplace, globalisation has bred a new underclass of low paid or unpaid women workers.
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  Women's Empowerment and Economic Justice: Reflecting on Experience in Latin America and the Caribbean

  2000

  Results from initial research on women and globalisation in Latin America and the Caribbean point to the importance of analysing women's economic empowerment within the existing socio-economic and political context of the countries in which these women live.
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  Moving the Goalposts: Gender and Globalisation in the Twenty-first Century

  Oxfam, 2000

  The ability to grasp the best opportunities brought about by the expansion of global trade and production are determined by women and men's different degrees of freedom to take on waged employment and their level of skills and training, including literacy. Women (and men) who have responsibilities for unpaid reproductive work are constrained in pursuing waged employment.
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  A Gender-analytical Perspective on Trade and Sustainable Development

  United Nations, 1999

  Gender discrimination, exacerbates the tendency of trade to increase overall inequality within and between nations. Gender discrimination also affects the price and income trends, which are unfavourable to development in primary commodities and in basic manufactured goods.
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  Globalisation and Gender

  Chicago Journals, 2001

  Whilst feminist political economists and others have recognised the significance of women's subordinate role in globalisation processes, the editors are concerned about the absence of a focus on women's centrality within social movements that are in opposition to globalisation.
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  Global Health and Development: the Impact of Globalisation on the Health of Poor People

  Department for International Development, UK, 2000

  Globalisation has often had negative effects on health, for example, an increase in trade in cigarettes and unhealthy food have led to a deterioration of people's health particularly in middle income countries.

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