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Briefing paper

Tax Battles: The dangerous global race to the bottom on corporate tax

12/12/2016

8 documents

46 pages long

Languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish

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Collecting tax is one of the key means by which governments are able to address poverty and inequality. But big business is dodging tax on an industrial scale, depriving governments across the globe of the money they need to address poverty and invest in healthcare, education and jobs. This report exposes the world’s worst corporate […]

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Case study

CLADEM and the Inter-American Convention on Sexual and Reproductive Rights

14/06/2008

1 documents

3 pages long

Languages: English

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CLADEM (the Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defence of Woman’s Rights) is currently campaigning for an Inter-American Convention on Sexual Rights and Reproductive Rights. This Convention would effect profound changes in women’s lives in Latin America and the Caribbean by ensuring that women are able to benefit from international and national agreements on […]

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Journal article

More and More Technology, Women have to go home’: changing skill demands in manufacturing and Caribbean women’s access to training

01/03/2001

12 pages long

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More and More Technology, Women have to go home’: changing skill demands in manufacturing and Caribbean women’s access to training

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Women in the Caribbean region have a history of working in paid employment as well as participating in unpaid work. This article focuses on case studies from Barbados, St Lucia, and Trinidad, where, since the 1970s, many women have been employed in export-processing. In the factories, stereotypes about women’s ‘natural’ abilities have been used to […]

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Journal article

Export processing zones: a Caribbean development dilemma

01/11/1999

5 pages long

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The author describes incentives used by governments to attract foreign investment and create export processing zones (EPZs), also known as special economic or free trade zones. The low cost of labour, mostly provided by women, is one of these incentives. Making special reference to Jamaica, Belize, and Barbados, the author discusses the impact of EPZs […]

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Tax Battles: The dangerous global race to the bottom on corporate tax

CLADEM and the Inter-American Convention on Sexual and Reproductive Rights

More and More Technology, Women have to go home’: changing skill demands in manufacturing and Caribbean women’s access to training

Export processing zones: a Caribbean development dilemma