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    Economics: Small Enterprises: Indicators of Women's Empowerment

    BRIDGE, 1995
    Examples of quantitative and qualitative indicators of women's empowerment. Legal, political, economic, and social empowerment are analysed, and key questions provided.
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    Economics: Small Enterprises: Power Relations Framework

    BRIDGE, 1999
    A framework for analysing women's empowerment. Types of power relations are plotted against 'economic empowerment', 'well-being benefits', and 'cultural, legal and political empowerment'.
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    Economics: Small Enterprises: Matrix for Analysing Impact on Empowerment

    BRIDGE, 1999
    A matrix for assessing the impact of micro-finance projects on empowerment. The indicators listed are: Financial, Economic, Social/Cultural, and Poltical/Legal.
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    Economics: Small Enterprises: Types of Micro-Finance Institutions

    BRIDGE, 1999
    A table listing types of micro-finance institutions, and providing examples of each, plus membership details, main products and features, requirements, and delivery and terms.
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    Economics:Small Enterprises

    BRIDGE, 1999
    The development of women's micro and small enterprises is receiving increased attention from government donor agencies and international NGOs. Poor men and women often face many of the same barriers to starting a small business: non- ownership of land, lack of transport to reach markets, inability to access credit. The constraints on women, however, go beyond poverty.
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    BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 8: Trade Policy

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999
    What are the links between gender equity and trade? Research reveals that trade liberalisation has different impacts on women's and men's employment and conditions of work, and also has consequences for women's unpaid labour. How the gains or losses from tariff revenues, are distributed also raises gender questions.
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    BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 2: Poverty Reduction Strategies

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 1995
    What is the relationship between poverty and gender disadvantage' In this issue of 'Development and Gender in Brief' current poverty reduction strategies are reviewed from a gender perspective. Studies have suggested that targeting resources to poor women through credit and employment schemes is not sufficient, in itself, to bring lasting benefits and may reinforce existing gender inequalities.
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    Women in a Global Economy: Challenge and Opportunity in the Current Asian Economic Crisis

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 1998
    The social, economic and political environment in Asia has changed rapidly in a climate of globalisation, trade liberalisation and market competition. Women's prominence and contribution to national economies as workers, entrepreneurs and household managers has accompanied this transformation.
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    Advancing the Commonwealth Agenda for Gender Equality into the New Millennium (2000-2005): An Update to the 1995 Commonwealth Plan of Action on Gender and Development

    Commonwealth Secretariat, 1999
    After reviewing progress since 1995, the Commonwealth Secretariat has refined the priorities of its Plan of Action to meet the opportunities and challenges of globalisation and technological advances, and reinforce gender mainstreaming as a form of good governance. The first of two critical policy issues is macroeconomics and social development.
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    Engendering International Trade: Concepts, Policy and Action

    Gender, Science and Development Programme, 1995
    How can gender dimensions become a feature of 'free trade' debates? Analysis tends to be gender-blind, with little written on the gender dimensions of trade in the context of economic globalisation. By identifying the gaps in mainstream trade policy research, this paper starts to map out the relevant issues for future policy research on gender and trade.

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