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  Faites vos Jeux, Messieurs! Or A Case Study on the Impact of GATS in Bulgaria

  BRIDGE, 2004

  This study looks at the long-term impact the recent privatisation of the water supply in Sofia Bulgaria has on women. It shows how human development and gender equality were compromised as part of the required liberalisation under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).
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  The Central American Free Trade Agreement: Gender Perspectives and Women's Action

  2004

  This report provides a preliminary gender analysis of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) between the U.S. and El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica (with the imminent addition of the Dominican Republic).
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  Gender in Transition

  World Bank, 2002

  The extensive socio-economic transformation undertaken by the transition countries of Europe and Central Asia over the last decade has substantially affected the structure of these countries' economies and the living standards of their people. A relatively under-explored issue is the extent to which this process has differently affected men and women in each country.
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  The public budget and maternal mortality in Mexico: an overview of the experience

  International Budget Partnership, 2004

  This report comes out of a collaborative project to evaluate the allocation of public resources to the reduction of maternal mortality. The study's findings showed that basic health services were insufficient to face the challenge of reducing maternal mortality among the poor.
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  Why Should we Care about Unpaid Care Work?

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2004

  The failure of macroeconomic policies to acknowledge unpaid care work - such as housework, cooking, and caring for children, older people, and sick or disabled people - has a significant impact on women's lives. How can we ensure that unpaid care work is visible and accounted for in macro- and micro-level policy-making?
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  Tracking Gender Equity Under Economic Reforms: Continuity and Change in South Asia

  Kali for Women, 2003

  How can we take account of how changes in economic policy initiatives affect gender relations? This book attempts to establish a new framework for gender analysis to address this question. Existing indicators, including education, employment and health status, are broadened to include gender-related stress, anxiety and violence.
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  BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Special issue: Gender Myths

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  Much development work has been based on gender stereotypes - for example the idea that farmers are men. In reaction, feminism has sometimes created counter stereotypes - such as that of the African woman farmer and her lazy husband. Such images have been hugely important in changing ideas about gender and channelling more resources to women.
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  Strategies for Poverty Alleviation in India: CYSD's Holistic Approach to Empowerment Through the Self-help Group Model

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  Providing credit is the primary goal of microfinance projects. But on its own this can be an ineffective response to chronic poverty. Research from India has shown that projects which take a broader approach can yield surprising results. A report from India's Utkal University describes the model of self-help groups used by the Centre for Youth and Social Development (CYSD).
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  Gender mainstreaming in macroeconomic policies and poverty reduction strategy in Kenya

  African Women's Development & Communication Network, 2004

  Economic decline and rising levels of poverty and income inequality are some of the main challenges currently facing the Kenyan economy. More than half the population live below the poverty line, with poor women being generally worse off than poor men.
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  Macro-Economics: Making Gender Matter: Concepts, Policies and Institutional Change in Developing Countries

  Zed Books Limited, 2003

  Increasingly over the past decade macro-economic theories and policies have begun to be considered with respect to their varying impacts on men and women. Gendered economic analysis has highlighted the existence of gender biases in institutions, markets and the household and introduced alternative frameworks into existing macro-economic agendas at many levels.

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