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    Watering the leaves, starving the roots: the status of financing for women's rights organizing and gender equality

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2013
    In the foreword to this report, AWID Executive Director Lydia Alpízar writes that she finds it, “truly surprising… that women’s rights organising and movements have been functioning, often with quite minimal financial support, even as their experience and effectiveness has increased.”
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    Women's Perspectives on Globalisation: Critical Approaches

    2006
    "This collection of articles aims to provide the francophone public with a critical feminist perspective on the policies and practices of development cooperation among international institutions such as the United Nations, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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    Women with Disabilities: Accessing Trade

    Status of Women Canada, 2004
    How do trade policies in Canada affect women with disabilities? Disabled women already have a greater propensity to be on low incomes. Gender and disability combine to deepen inequalities in access to jobs and remuneration. This leaves many women with disabilities more reliant on public funded support.
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    Gender Guide to World Bank and IMF Policy-Based Lending

    Gender Action, 2006
    Why do World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) policy-based loans, and associated reforms (or 'loan conditionalities') generally bypass local democratic processes and contribute to the feminisation of poverty?
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    Financial Law Project 2006. Gender Report

    Ministry of Finance and Privatization, Morocco, 2005
    In Morocco, the introduction of a Gender Report annexed to the 2006 Economic and Financial Report is one of the outcomes of the budget reform, which is moving towards a results-oriented and gender-sensitive management of public funds.
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    Women's Perspectives on Globalisation: Critical Approaches

    Karthala, 2006
    This collection of articles aims to provide the francophone public with a critical feminist perspective on the policies and practices of development cooperation among international institutions such as the United Nations, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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    Strategies and approaches for gender mainstreaming in international trade

    International Trade Centre, 2001
    As women must still negotiate family and work responsibilities, they tend to engage in more informal sector or home-based work. Women's equal participation in trading activities is further hampered by concerns such as difficulty accessing capital, lack of relevant training and skills or limited contacts with national and international trade networks.
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    Trade impact review: Mexico case study: NAFTA and the FTAA: a gender analysis of employment and poverty impacts in agriculture

    Women's Edge Coalition, 2003
    Mexicans working in agriculture were hit hard by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). There is now concern over the potential impact of increased trade liberalisation through the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). This case study seeks to quantify the differential impact on Mexican women and men of trade agreements so that lessons learned can inform new trade agreements.
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    Fact Sheet: Gender and Migration

    International Organization for Migration, 2002
    How does gender shape the different experiences of migrant women and men? Gender can have a greater effect on experiences of migration than country of origin or destination, age, class, race or culture. Migrant women now account for almost 50 per cent of migrants and are increasingly migrating as individuals rather than as dependants of other family members.
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    Gender Mainstreaming in Development and Trade Policy and Practice: Learning from Austria, Belgium, and the UK

    Network Women in Development Europe, 2003
    In its longstanding commitment to promoting gender equality, the international community recognises the importance of gender mainstreaming. This research study examines how far these commitments were translated into practice at a national level within the European Union (EU), using Austria, Belgium and the UK as case studies.

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