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    Asset Ownership along Gender Lines: Evidence from Thailand

    The Levy Economics Institute, 2005
    Do men and women own similar kinds of assets? What factors influence the gender-specific composition of asset ownership? This paper focuses on gender differences in asset ownership within households in urban low-income communities in Bangkok, Thailand.
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    Labour markets as gendered institutions: equality, efficiency and empowerment issues

    World Development, 1999
    Economists have tended to approach labour markets as neutral arenas in which buyers and sellers interact. This paper argues, by contrast, that markets are gendered institutions which operate at the intersection of the productive and reproductive economies - that is, as markets structured by gendered practices, perceptions, norms and networks.
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    Aid modalities and the promotion of gender equality: aide-memoire

    The Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality, 2005
    How can bilateral donors and multilateral agencies make best use of new ways of delivering aid, to ensure real progress on gender equality and women's empowerment?
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    Fifth Periodic Report on Implementation of Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (Japan)

    Government of Japan, 2002
    Japan's 5th periodic report on the implementation of the ?Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women? (CEDAW) covers the period May 1998 to April 2002. It was put together in consultation with a wide range of civil society groups.
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    New forms of citizenship: democracy, family, and community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Oxfam, 2003
    In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, many families live in illegal land occupations (favelas), housing projects and working-class suburbs. In the daily lives of most of these families, little change has been experienced under democracy as opposed to dictatorship. For some, life is more defined by violence related to drug-trafficking.
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    Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

    Oxfam, 2003
    One of the greatest barriers to achieving full citizenship rights for women is culture. If development organisations are to help advance women's rights and full citizenship then they must abandon explanations on the basis of ?culture? that ignore gender-based discrimination, and overcome their anxieties about appearing neo-colonial.
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    Women, nationality and citizenship

    United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2003
    In the majority of cases, nationality is crucial to the enjoyment of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. This has significant implications for those who do not have nationality such as stateless persons and refugees. However, looking at nationality also reveals numerous gender discriminations.
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    Gender and Trade: Overview Report

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    The general assumption is that trade liberalisation (the removal of barriers to cross-border trade) has equal impacts on men and women. However women and men are affected differently by trade due to their different roles in production and reproduction and to imbalances over control of land, power and resources.
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    Gender and Trade: Supporting Resources Collection

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    Over the past few years, greater understanding of the links between gender and trade has led to increased research and advocacy around the impact of trade policies on gender relations. Development policies and interventions at the macro, meso and micro levels are beginning to address the gendered inequalities that affect access to the potential benefits of international trade.
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    Gender and Trade Cutting Edge Pack

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    Trade and trade liberalisation have very different impacts on women and men - which can result in fundamental shifts in gender roles, relationships and inequalities. Moreover increasing claims that countries should be enabled to 'trade their way out of poverty' means that there is an urgent need to address how trade can promote gender equality and development.

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