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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 ...

National Implementation of International Economic Law: Mexico, Edward Edgar Publishing

8 April 2024

The Encyclopedia is the definitive reference work on international economic law. This comprehensive resource helps redefine the field by presenting international economic law in its broadest, real-world context. The chapter is a report on Mexico which off ...

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 ...

Joint Statement Initiatives: A Legitimate End to ‘Until Everything is Agreed’?

5 April 2024

At World Trade Organization (WTO), nothing is agreed until everything is agreed and until everyone agrees at the negotiating tables, and that ‘magic’ moment has been difficult to arrive at. Some WTO Members have argued that if all Members cannot move ahea ...

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 ...

An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of COVID-19 on Trade: Evidence from a Small Island African Economy

24 January 2024

This study investigates the potential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the related containment measures on the trade system of Mauritius for the period January 2010 to June 2021. As the pandemic spread across the globe due to high interconnectedness a ...

Disciplining CBDCs: Achieving the Balance between Privacy Protection and Central Bank Independence

9 December 2023

Central bank digital currency (“CBDC”) is a crucial FinTech development that aspires to overhaul the current payment system. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, CBDCs' promises to reduce personal contact, facilitate socially desirable use of money, ...

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