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Look FIRST from a gender perspective: NAFTA and the FTAA

01/07/2004

9 pages long

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Look FIRST from a gender perspective: NAFTA and the FTAA

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Advocates for gender and economic justice have been calling for gender and social-impact assessments of trade policies for the past seven years. In 2002, Women’s Edge Coalition completed a Trade Impact Review (TIR), an economic and legal framework to analyse the ways in which women and men may be differentially affected by global trade and […]

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Being a female entrepreneur in Botswana: cultures, values, strategies for success

01/07/2004

7 pages long

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Being a female entrepreneur in Botswana: cultures, values, strategies for success

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This article elucidates a study of businesswomen as they move from owning and managing informal businesses into the formal economy. The study indicates that business success for rural women in Botswana is specific to the socio-cultural context. By examining prevalent concepts of patriarchy and community in our study, we start to see that cultural values […]

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Women workers and precarious employment in Shenzhen special economic zone, China

01/07/2004

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Women workers and precarious employment in Shenzhen special economic zone, China

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In spite of the increase in transnational codes of conduct and legal mobilisation of labour, despotic labour regimes in China are still prevalent. Globalisation and ‘race to the bottom’ production strategies adopted by transnational corporations militate against the improvement of labour relations in China. The goal of this study is to provide a framework for […]

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Corporate responsibility and women’s employment: the case of cashew nuts

01/07/2004

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Corporate responsibility and women’s employment: the case of cashew nuts

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We know that falling international prices and the exploitative practices of buyers and retailers have had a negative impact on the wages and working conditions of workers in developing countries. This short piece discusses an exceptional example of better practice in the cashew nut industry in Mozambique, which demonstrates that collaboration between government, companies, and […]

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Are trade agreements with the EU beneficial to women in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific?

01/07/2004

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Are trade agreements with the EU beneficial to women in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific?

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Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), currently being negotiated between the European Union and 77 African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries, are due to enter into force in January 2008. These talks come under the umbrella of the 2000 Cotonou Partnership Agreement, which sets out a clear and specific commitment to gender equality. Despite this, gender issues […]

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Global trade and homework: closing the divide

01/07/2004

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Global trade and homework: closing the divide

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Home work has re-emerged as a new form of subcontracted production. Promoted through global capital, it relies on sweatshop labour conditions to cut costs and maintain workers in a vulnerable state. There are now an estimated 300 million home workers in the global workforce, who are part of the growing informal employment sector. In many […]

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Good jobs’ and hidden costs: women workers documenting the price of precarious employment

01/07/2004

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Good jobs’ and hidden costs: women workers documenting the price of precarious employment

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This article describes the precarious terms and conditions of employment experienced by millions of women working in global supply chains in the food and garment industries, and describes the main forces leading to that precariousness. It then presents a typology of costs and determinants of precarious employment, in the form of a matrix, which serves […]

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Women, trade, and migration

01/07/2004

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The impact of modern trade policies on the position of women across the world has produced a growing literature in recent years. This has largely concentrated on analyses of the impact on women of privatisation and trade liberalisation during the course of the past two decades. There has been increased interest on the part of […]

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Gender, the Doha development agenda, and the post-Cancun trade negotiations

01/07/2004

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Gender, the Doha development agenda, and the post-Cancun trade negotiations

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The intensification of trade liberalisation has increasingly led women’s organisations and other civil society groups to pay close attention to the impact of trade liberalisation on economic and social development. At the last Ministerial meeting of the WTO in Cancun, gender and trade advocates developed empirical and policy-oriented positions on the WTO trade agenda. Though […]

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TRIPS and biodiversity: a gender perspective

01/07/2004

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TRIPS and biodiversity: a gender perspective

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Gene Campaign is a movement involving organisations across Asia, working towards food and livelihood security for rural and tribal communities. It is deeply concerned about the negative impacts of privatisation on genetic resources through patenting and intellectual property rights. Biological resources are the mainstay of the livelihoods and local economies of communities in developing countries. […]

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