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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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  Gender and Cultural Change Cutting Edge Pack (CEP)

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002

  Is gender and development a northern imposition on cultures of the south? Yes, in the sense that much of development, including gender and development, is dominated by northern agendas. On the other hand, cultures are changing and diverse, and within any culture some people will oppose and some will favour greater gender equality.
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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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  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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