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  Facilitating Women's Entrepreneurship: Lessons from the ILO's Research and Support Programmes

  International Labour Organization, 2003

  Women are less likely to be entrepreneurs than men and work in different sectors which are perceived as less important to economic growth and development. However, women's entrepreneurship may, if nurtured, contribute significantly to economic growth. Existing mainstream government policies and programmes do not adequately support the specific needs of women entrepreneurs.
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  Women's Rights and the Multilateral Trading System: The Politics of Gender Mainstreaming at the WTO

  Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2004

  How can the differential impacts that trade has on women and men be effectively addressed? What are the most appropriate mechanisms for incorporating gender into trade policy? This conference report points to the lack of mechanisms to hold the WTO to account for women's rights.
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  Trade, Skills and Persistence of Gender Gap: A Theoretical Framework for Policy Discussion

  2003

  Why do conventional formulations of the benefits of international trade fall short in their capacity to address persistent gender inequality?
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  Engendering Policy Coherence for Development: Gender Issues for the Global Policy

  Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2005

  How can a policy coherence framework contribute to gender-sensitive policy making? This report is for policy-makers, trade unionists, business people and civil society organisations.
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  Free Trade or Fair Trade: An overview of the WTO and the Myths Surrounding It

  Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, 2003

  Is free trade always fair on women? What are the main links between gender and trade? This discussion paper explores the links between WTO sectoral agreements and gender and describes the position shared by DAWN and civil society organisations on the Cancun meeting.
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  Coming to Terms with Sexual Harassment in Ghana

  Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana, 2004

  What measures need to be taken to change attitudes about sexual harassment in Ghana? The concept of sexual harassment is too often confused with courting or playful flirting. When it does receive attention, it is almost exclusively associated with the workplace.
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  Cutting edge pack: gender and migration

  BRIDGE, 2005

  In 2000, 1 in every 35 people was an international migrant and half of these were women. The total numbers of people moving internally and the proportions of women among them are even higher. People's experiences of gender are central to the patterns, causes and impacts of migration. Gender roles, relations and inequalities affect who migrates, how, why, and where they end up.
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  BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 16: Gender and Migration

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  Over the past four decades total numbers of international migrants have more than doubled but the percentage of the world population migrating has remained fairly constant. There are now 175 million international migrants worldwide or approximately 3.5 per cent of the global population -about half of whom are women.
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  Gender and Migration: Supporting Resources Collection

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This collection is made up of summaries of overviews, case studies, tools and guidelines and other materials relating to gender and migration. Details of how to obtain copies or download the full texts are provided with each summary.
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  The Corner Project - Working with Children of Migrants in Mexico

  Corner Project, 2005

  The Corner Project, started by a North American in Mexico, works in a mountainous area of Mexico where male and female out-migration is significant. Farming has traditionally been the backbone of the local economy.

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