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  Gender Focus on the WTO

  Global Publications Foundation, 1999

  There is abundant research on the subject that proves that trade rules and agreements affect women and men differently. This book offers a series of articles presenting some of these findings and testimonies about action to address the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) current gender blindness.
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  Women Working with the NAFTA Food Chain, Women, Food and Globalization

  Second Story Press, 1999

  Efforts to develop sustainable food systems must take into account the role of women in the various stages of production, preparation and consumption of the food we eat. This collection of research makes connections in Canada, the US and Mexico among women who work in fast-food restaurants, supermarkets and agricultural production.
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  Women Resist Globalization: Mobilizing for Livelihoods and Rights

  Zed Books Limited, 2001

  Women in the North and South have struggled to protect the environment and reproductive rights, mobilised against poverty and racism, fought the inequalities imposed by structural adjustment policies (SAPs) and campaigned for human rights.
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  Gender Implications of the "New" Economic Policy: a Conceptual Overview

  1999

  Economic reforms under the 'New Structural Adjustment Programme' in India include the de-regulation of the economy to allow free market forces to operate unhindered. With increasing global economic competition, employment conditions have declined and government spending on social welfare services has decreased.
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  Women and Agribusiness: Working Miracles in the Chilean Fruit Export Sector

  Macmillan Education Ltd, London and Oxford, 1999

  The feminisation of the agriculture and agro-industrial labour force in Chile is the outcome of the worldwide process of globalisation and Chile's shift to a neo-liberal model of development since the mid-1970s. Fresh fruit exported from Chile and many other developing nations has increased dramatically.
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  Gender, Flexibility and Global Value Chains

  BRIDGE, 2001

  Analysis of value chains incorporates all aspects from design, through production to final distribution and consumption. These activities are embedded within prevailing gender relations that affect value chains at every stage, however gender is often overlooked. Conversely the operation of value chains can affect the prevailing gender division of labour in different localities.
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  Economic Policy and Women's Informal Work in South Africa

  2001

  The South African Government's trade and industrial policies are shifting the economy onto a path of capital intensification. Allied to this, firms are undergoing a process of extensive restructuring. The restructuring process in labour intensive industries has resulted in massive job losses in sectors that have traditionally employed large numbers of women.
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  Women and Labour Market Changes in the Global Economy: Growth Helps, Inequalities Hurt and Public Policy Matters

  1999

  Significant inefficiencies arise from persistent gender differentials in the labour market and the resulting losses are borne primarily by women. The paper concludes that inequalities can have significantly adverse effects on welfare, and market-based development alone can be a weak instrument for reducing inequality between the sexes.
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  Questions About Culture, Gender Equality and Development Cooperation

  Canadian International Development Agency, 2001

  Culture is understood as changing, and as meaning different things to different people, even within the same community. Development is also said to be about change, whether economic or other kinds of development, and as having an impact on gender, whether intended or not.
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  Women and Culture

  Oxfam, 1995

  This journal makes the case that development is itself imbued with cultural values: 'The concept of development is laden with the cultural values of post- colonialism, of Northern countries, and of economists. Over the last 30 years, development has been synonymous with a Northern-based notion of 'modernisation' - economic progress from a 'traditional' to a 'modern' society.

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