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Progressive Trade: Labour and Gender, Oxford University Press

8 April 2024

This chapter provides an overview of the growing influence of both labour standards and gender equality concerns in contemporary trade debates, and in particular how existing FTAs have increasingly accommodated both types of issues. In the following secti ...

Gender Mainstreaming in Trade Agreements: Best Practice Examples and Challenges in the Asia-Pacific, Cambridge University Press

8 April 2024

In recent years, more and more countries have included different kinds of gender considerations in their trade agreements. Yet many countries have still not signed their very first agreement with a gender equality-related provision. Though most of the agr ...

Trade negotiation dialogue and capacity building: applying the PXA Framework, World Trade Organization

8 April 2024

The increasing trend of the inclusion of gender equality and women’s economic empowerment concerns in the negotiation of trade agreements creates a need to strengthen informed dialogue between the public and private sectors. Trade negotiators are often no ...

Gender mainstreaming in trade agreements: “A Potemkin Facade”?, World Trade Organization

8 April 2024

and economic realities is needed, as is further research on what would improve ...

Trade Policy and Gender Equality

5 April 2024

Trade policies create both 'winners' and 'losers', as some actors stand to benefit and others are left behind. More often than not, it has been women who have borne the negative impacts of international trade policy and it is thus impe ...

Gender Equality Provisions in Trade and Investment Agreements: Are They Widening the Negotiation Capacity Gap?

5 April 2024

negotiation capacity gap with the help of empirical research, and how ...

Finding Feet on Trade Agreements: Empowering Women Entrepreneurs Amidst a Pandemic

5 April 2024

The Covid-19 pandemic has deepened the existing gender inequalities. In particular, it has dealt a significant blow to women entrepreneurs, as it has magnified the pre-pandemic disadvantages women have faced in the economic, social, financial and regulato ...

Gender Mainstreaming in Preferential Trade Agreements: An examination of the Evolution of gender Dynamics in International Trade

13 November 2023

Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) have evolved from being primarily concerned with trade issues to addressing non-trade issues. Apart from focusing on issues like trade in goods, services, and intellectual property-related issues, modern PTAs, especial ...

Comercio con Enfoque de Género

10 May 2023

Que las personas, sin importar su identidad de género, puedan beneficiarse en igualdad de condiciones del comercio es un presupuesto necesario para el desarrollo sostenible y progresivo de un país. Por eso, en este documento se presenta el panorama nacion ...

Making Trade Agreements Work for Women Empowerment: How Does It Help, What Has Been Done, and What Remains Undone?

17 February 2022

Bahri, A. (2021). Making Trade Agreements Work for Women Empowerment:. Latin American Journal of Trade Policy, 4(11), 6- 24. doi:10.5354/0719-9368.2021.65667 In the recent years, there has been an upsurge in the number of FTAs that are mainstreaming gende ...

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