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  Chains of Fortune: Linking Women Producers with Global Markets

  Commonwealth Secretariat, 2004

  Much has been written on the impact of globalisation on poor women. It is generally agreed that the impact can be both negative and positive and varies according to context.
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  Promoting Gender Equality. A Resource Kit for Trade Unions

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  This toolkit has been designed to address the challenges faced by trade unions in recruiting and retaining female members and ensuring that trade union policies reflect gender equality goals . Trade unions have a role in protecting workers from all types of discrimination, including that based on gender.
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  GET Ahead for Women in Enterprise Training Package and Resource Kit

  International Labour Organization, 2004

  This training package is designed for ILO partner organisations to promote women's enterprise development, particularly for those women in poverty who want to start or already have a small-scale business.
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  Instruments for Gender Equality in Trade Agreements: European Union - Mercosur - Mexico

  Network Women in Development Europe, 2001

  This document proposes a set of indicators which allow an initial analysis of the effects of trade policies and expansion on women and gender relations. In particular these indicators are instruments with which to evaluate the effects of the EU's current trade policies and of the trade agreements between Mexico and the EU and between Mercosur and the EU.
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  Pacific Island Countries Trade Agreement (PICTA) Social Impact Monitoring Framework

  2005

  Pacific countries are increasingly participating in various trade agreements, both regional and international. To date, the potential social/gender impacts of these trade agreements have not been significantly factored into trade negotiations, nor closely monitored.
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  Trade Impact Review

  2002

  This tool provides an extensive overview of the literature and frameworks to analyse gender-differentiated impacts of new trade and investment agreements undertaken by the United States (US) prior to their negotiation and signing. A framework is then proposed that accounts for both the economic as well as legal effects of trade agreements on women and men.
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  Gender and Trade Indicators

  2002

  This Women in Development Europe (WIDE) information sheet - aimed at governments, trade policy makers, the WTO and academic researchers - is designed to assist efforts to measure and monitor the relationship between trade and gender. This tool consists of three sets of indicators, which can be applied to an analysis of any trading relationship between countries or trade blocks.
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  International Trade in Women's Agendas

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2004

  What strategies could be used in gender and trade advocacy? Trade agreements are generally formulated and decided by governments without any input from civil society. Increasingly, though, civil society organisations have been involved in protests against international and regional free trade agreements that are not sustainable, and that are working against gender equality.
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  Manual for Value Chain Research on Homeworkers in the Garment Industry

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002

  This manual provides a comprehensive approach to using value chain research and analysis to improve the lives of homeworkers in the global economy. The focus of the manual is on women and men who provide subcontracted piecework services to the global garment industry, although the lessons from the manual may be broadened to other sectors.
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  Women in the Market: A Manual for Popular Economic Literacy

  Network Women in Development Europe, 2000

  Designed for WIDE's popular economics training, this manual combines a popular education framework with economic literacy tools to develop a better understanding of the fundamental workings of a market economy. It provides information on the particulars of the current economy: globalisation, restructuring, fluctuations (unemployment, inflation) and the WTO.

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