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    Trading Away Our Rights: Women Working in Global Supply Chains

    Oxfam, 2004
    What are the difficulties faced by the predominantly female workforce at the end of global supply chains for fruit, vegetables and clothing which are dominated by powerful multinational corporations? This Oxfam report outlines these difficulties.
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    Enhancing Women Entrepreneurship Through Export Growth - Issues and Solutions

    International Trade Centre, 2004
    Why are many women involved in local entrepreneurship activities yet very few involved in the export sector? Given the number of enterprises headed by women and their contribution to national economies, the capacity of women to contribute to economic growth is not being maximised.
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    Women in the Global Economy

    International Trade Centre, 2003
    Women make up the majority of entrepreneurs in 'marginal' economic areas such as micro enterprises and the informal economy. But these make up a large percentage of total economic activity in many poor countries. Yet women's roles as producers and consumers of goods and services and providers of employment are often invisible.
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    Small and Medium Enterprise Development

    Commonwealth Secretariat, 2003
    This brief focuses on the contribution made by women to local and national economies and the ways in which more structured small and medium enterprises (SMEs) may contribute to women's social and economic development in the context of globalisation.
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    Women's Rights and the Multilateral Trading System: The Politics of Gender Mainstreaming at the WTO

    Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2004
    How can the differential impacts that trade has on women and men be effectively addressed? What are the most appropriate mechanisms for incorporating gender into trade policy? This conference report points to the lack of mechanisms to hold the WTO to account for women's rights.
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    Trade, Skills and Persistence of Gender Gap: A Theoretical Framework for Policy Discussion

    2003
    Why do conventional formulations of the benefits of international trade fall short in their capacity to address persistent gender inequality?
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    Engendering Policy Coherence for Development: Gender Issues for the Global Policy

    Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2005
    How can a policy coherence framework contribute to gender-sensitive policy making? This report is for policy-makers, trade unionists, business people and civil society organisations.
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    Free Trade or Fair Trade: An overview of the WTO and the Myths Surrounding It

    Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, 2003
    Is free trade always fair on women? What are the main links between gender and trade? This discussion paper explores the links between WTO sectoral agreements and gender and describes the position shared by DAWN and civil society organisations on the Cancun meeting.
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    Cutting edge pack: gender and migration

    BRIDGE, 2005
    In 2000, 1 in every 35 people was an international migrant and half of these were women. The total numbers of people moving internally and the proportions of women among them are even higher. People's experiences of gender are central to the patterns, causes and impacts of migration. Gender roles, relations and inequalities affect who migrates, how, why, and where they end up.
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    BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 16: Gender and Migration

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
    Over the past four decades total numbers of international migrants have more than doubled but the percentage of the world population migrating has remained fairly constant. There are now 175 million international migrants worldwide or approximately 3.5 per cent of the global population -about half of whom are women.

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