The article evaluates Uzbekistan's productive potential by analyzing key indicators comprising the UNCTAD Productive Capacities Index (PCI) categories. The analysis highlights existing problems and constraints that affect Uzbekistan's productive…
Environmental sustainability has become a critical global challenge, driving researchers and policymakers to explore
solutions that balance economic growth with ecological preservation. As nations strive to achieve the United Nations
Sustainable…
Health pandemics affect women and men differently, and they can make the existing gender inequalities much worse. COVID-19 is one such pandemic, which can have substantial gender implications both during and in the post-pandemic world. Its economic…
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…
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…
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…