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Recent Publications

I. Development and Globalisation: Facts and Figures 2008

April 2008, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, United Nations, New York and Geneva.


This second issue of UNCTAD´s Development and Globalization: Facts and Figures is more than an update of the 2004 edition. With economic globalization challenging much of our traditional wisdom, the 2008 edition is meant to enhance the analytical emphasis and to offer some explana-tions for new and emerging economic trends. The areas covered in this issue are Global growth and composition of demand, Payment balances and determinants, External resources, International trade and Population.

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II. “Putting Gender Back In The Picture: Rethinking Women’s Economic Empowerment”

By Emily Esplen with Alyson Brody; BRIDGE (development - gender),   Institute of Development Studies University of Sussex, December 2007.


The Report has been prepared at the request of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA). It has focused on the relationship between ffinancial gain and women’s empowerment in details. Report starts with the credit availability and women entrepreneurship and moved towards faminisation of labour during the time of liberalisation.  In this context, report has highlighted the issues of mobility constraints of women, gender pay gap, exploitation due to casualisation of labour thorough different forms of contract and recognition of women labour at the workplace. The issue has been placed against the ‘double burden’ faced by women in the form of paid work and care work.   The report has made an attempt to understand the nuances of gendered barriers that prevent some women from benefiting from economic opportunities or from being empowered despite access to various opportunities.

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