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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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    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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    Gendered Labour Markets and Globalisation in Asia

    United Nations Development Programme, 1999
    Are Asian women empowered by joining the labour force? This report - presented at an International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development conference - identifies increasing female labour as a core feature of the transformation of Asian labour markets under economic globalisation processes.
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    BRIDGE Report 48: Glossary on Macroeconomics from a Gender Perspective

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2000
    Is gender relevant to macroeconomics? What are the gendered implications of various economic concepts, methodologies and approaches? This glossary highlights the gender dimensions of key macroeconomic concepts and processes, and areas where gender is increasingly being considered in economic theory, policy formulation and evaluation.
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    Tip Sheet on Globalisation and Equality Between Women and Men

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 1998
    How do gender-differentiated effects of globalisation arise? These questions are answered in this 2-page Sida guideline. Whilst globalisation - defined as policies and trends associated with market liberalisation - is often assumed to have similar impacts on women and men, the effects in fact reinforce existing patterns of inequality between them.

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