Trading Stories: Experiences with Gender and Trade

Marilyn Carr, Mariama Williams

Commonwealth Secretariat, 2010 - Law - 282 pages

Through twenty regional and country case studies, Trading Stories pulls together the key links between trade, gender and economic development. Ten case studies focus on the gender impacts of trade policies, detailing differential consequences on men and women; and ten focus on linking women with global markets-including FairTrade, organic, niche and mainstream markets-through a range of best practices involving government, NGOs, people's organizations and associations, private sector and international agencies.

The book draws on three recent Commonwealth Secretariat publications on gender and trade: Gender Mainstreaming in the Multilateral Trading System; Chains of Fortune: Linking Women Producers and Workers with Global Markets; and Gender and Trade Action Guide and is a useful addition to the growing body of evidence that will help governments to effectively mainstream gender in their trade policy.

Contents

• Import Liberalisation: 9
• Service Liberalisation: 10
• New Export Markets: 17
• Gender Impacts of Trade: 27
• Can it be Mended? Kenya and the MFA Phaseout: 41
• India and the MFA Phaseout: 55
• The Effects of Changing Trade Regimes: 75
• GATS and the: 89
• The SPS Agreement and 117: 117
• Lessons Learned from Part One: 133
• Cocoa Farmers in Ghana: 153
• Nontokozo Nemarundwe Maideyi Kutambura: 185
• The Case of Pure Fiji: 195
• The Case of Ramesh Flowers in India: 203
• Linking Rural Ugandan: 209
• Women Artisans Exporting Leather: 225
• SEWA Trade Facilitation: 233
• The Role of ICT: 243
• Lessons Learned from Part Two: 253
• About the Contributors: 261
• Index: 271

About the author

Marilyn Carr is a development economist with over thirty years experience working in Africa and Asia. She was Senior Economist for the Intermediate Technology Development Group (now Practical Action); Chief, Economic Empowerment, UNIFEM; and founding member and Director, Global Markets, WIEGO. Mariama Williams is an international economics consultant and an Adjunct Associate at the Centre of Concern, Washington, DC. She is also the Research Adviser for the International Gender and Trade Network.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Trading Stories: Experiences with Gender and Trade
• Editors: Marilyn Carr, Mariama Williams
• Contributor: Commonwealth Secretariat
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat, 2010
• ISBN: 0850928737, 9780850928730
• Length: 282 pages
• Subjects: Law / Commercial / General; Political Science / Globalization; Political Science / International Relations / Trade & Tariffs