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  Women's Labour and Economic Globalisation: a Participatory Workshop Created by Alternative Women in Development (Alt-WID)

  Oxfam, 2000

  Alt-WID, a working group of feminist educators and activists formed in 1993, focuses on the relationship between global macro-economic polices and our local communities. The group is particularly interested in translating ideas into popular education tools that can be used by organisers and grassroots groups.
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  World Survey on the Role of Women in Development: Globalisation, Gender and Work

  United Nations, 1999

  This global survey examines the impact of current trends and policies on the overall social and economic situation of women. It starts by describing the main economic trends produced by globalisation: trade liberalisation; increased globalised production due to direct investment of multinational corporations; and financial liberalisation.
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  World Development Special Issue: Growth, Trade, Finance and Gender Inequality

  2000

  This special issue of the World Development journal is part of a larger project aiming to explore new ways of engendering macroeconomic and international trade models both theoretically and empirically and to analyse any implication for specific macroeconomic policy questions.
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  Trade, gender and poverty

  United Nations Development Programme, 2001

  Assumptions about the benefits of trade tend to be based on gender-blind mainstream trade theories, which ignore the social relations that mediate the implementation of trade policies. This paper first examines the relationship between gender and poverty.
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  Gender and globalization: female labor and women ’s mobilization

  Journal of World System Research, 2001

  The political and cultural dimensions of globalisation have had contradictory social effects on women workers and women's activism.
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  Economics: Small Enterprises: Logframe: Micro-Finance by Women for Women

  BRIDGE, 1999

  Example of the Micro-Finance for Women by Women (MWW) Logframe, utilised in a project to deliver sustainable micro-finance services to poor women in rural Punjab.
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  Economics: Small Enterprises: Project Cycle: Micro-Entreprise Projects

  BRIDGE, 1999

  An examination of the various stages in the micro-enterprise project cycle, covering Identification of Needs, Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring, and Evaluation and Impact Assessment.
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  Economics: Small Enterprises: Contacts

  BRIDGE, 1999

  Provides details of contacts pertaining to the small enterprises sector, including websites, electronic networks and useful organisations.
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  Economics: Small Enterprises: Bibliographies

  BRIDGE, 1999

  Summaries of key texts, plus an extensive bibliography of small enterprises resources.
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  Economics: Facts and Figures

  BRIDGE, 1999

  Economics facts and figures, focusing on four areas: employment in export manufacturing; employment in the informal sector; labour force participation; and gender differentials in earnings.

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