Gender China And The World Trade Organization

Author : Günseli Berik,Xiao-yuan Dong,Gale Summerfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317989400

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Gender, China and the World Trade Organization by Günseli Berik,Xiao-yuan Dong,Gale Summerfield Pdf

China’s joining the World Trade Organization at the end of 2001 signifies a milestone in the country’s global integration after two decades of economic reforms that have fundamentally transformed the economic organization of China. This collection seeks to identify the gendered implications within China of the country’s transition from socialism to a market economy and its opening up to international trade and investment. The changes have created greater wealth for some, while at the same time, serious gender, class, ethnic, and regional disparities have also emerged. Drawing from historical, analytical, and policy-oriented work, the essays in this collection explore women’s well-being relative to men’s in rural and urban China by looking at land rights, labor-market status and labor rights, household decision-making, health, the representation of women in advertising and beauty pageants. This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal, Feminist Economics, the official journal of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE). All contributions have been subjected to the journal's rigorous peer review process and comply with the journal's editorial policies, as overseen by the editor, Diana Strassmann, and the journal's editorial team, including the associate editors, the editorial board, numerous volunteer reviewers, and the journal's in-house editorial staff and freelance style editors. The special issue and book have been made possible by the generous financial support of Rice University and the Ford Foundation-Beijing.

Author : World Bank;World Trade Organization
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464815560

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Women and Trade by World Bank;World Trade Organization Pdf

Trade can dramatically improve women’s lives, creating new jobs, enhancing consumer choices, and increasing women’s bargaining power in society. It can also lead to job losses and a concentration of work in low-skilled employment. Given the complexity and specificity of the relationship between trade and gender, it is essential to assess the potential impact of trade policy on both women and men and to develop appropriate, evidence-based policies to ensure that trade helps to enhance opportunities for all. Research on gender equality and trade has been constrained by limited data and a lack of understanding of the connections among the economic roles that women play as workers, consumers, and decision makers. Building on new analyses and new sex-disaggregated data, Women and Trade: The Role of Trade in Promoting Gender Equality aims to advance the understanding of the relationship between trade and gender equality and to identify a series of opportunities through which trade can improve the lives of women.

Author : United Nations Women
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789213614372

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Trade Liberalization, Social Policy Development and Labour Market Outcomes of Chinese Women and Men in the Decade After China’s Accession to the World Trade Organization by United Nations Women Pdf

How trade liberalization affects women’s position in the labour market and what role public policy should play to make the process work better for women are among some of the most debated issues in academic communities and in policy-making arenas. This work sheds light on these contentious issues by analysing the trends in labour market outcomes of women and men in China in the decade after its accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). The publication reviews the changes associated with China’s economic reforms and opening to international trade and investment since the process started in the late 1970s. Since the early 2000s, a wide range of policy measures have been introduced to strengthen labour market regulations, reduce inequality and increase social security. However, most of these policy initiatives were ‘gender neutral’, paying inadequate attention to the institutional constraints that disadvantaged women in the labour market.

Author : Amrita Bahri,Dorotea López,Jan Yves Remy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781009363709

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Trade Policy and Gender Equality by Amrita Bahri,Dorotea López,Jan Yves Remy Pdf

Offers a systematic, up-to-date evaluation of the debate relating to international trade law, policy and gender equality.

Author : Richard Baldwin,Masahiro Kawai,Ganeshan Wignaraja
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781783479283

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A World Trade Organization for the 21st Century by Richard Baldwin,Masahiro Kawai,Ganeshan Wignaraja Pdf

ø Policy makers will benefit from the expert knowledge and policy lessons presented in this book, and development economists and researchers will profit from its critical examination of the world trading system. Undergraduate and postgraduate studen

Author : Amrita Narlikar,Martin Daunton,Robert M. Stern
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199586103

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The Oxford Handbook on The World Trade Organization by Amrita Narlikar,Martin Daunton,Robert M. Stern Pdf

This handbook provides a holistic understanding of what the World Trade Organization does, how it goes about fulfilling its tasks, its achievements and problems, and how it might contend with some critical challenges.

Author : Paul Blustein
Publisher : CIGI
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781928096870

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Schism by Paul Blustein Pdf

China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 was heralded as historic, and for good reason: the world's most populous nation was joining the rule-based system that has governed international commerce since World War II. But the full ramifications of that event are only now becoming apparent, as the Chinese economic juggernaut has evolved in unanticipated and profoundly troublesome ways. In this book, journalist Paul Blustein chronicles the contentious process resulting in China's WTO membership and the transformative changes that followed, both good and bad – for China, for its trading partners, and for the global trading system as a whole. The book recounts how China opened its markets and underwent far-reaching reforms that fuelled its economic takeoff, but then adopted policies – a cheap currency and heavy-handed state intervention – that unfairly disadvantaged foreign competitors and circumvented WTO rules. Events took a potentially catastrophic turn in 2018 with the eruption of a trade war between China and the United States, which has brought the trading system to a breaking point. Regardless of how the latest confrontation unfolds, the world will be grappling for decades with the challenges posed by China Inc.

Author : World Trade Organization (WTO),World World Bank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9287049947

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Women and Trade by World Trade Organization (WTO),World World Bank Pdf

"In view of the complexity of the relationship between trade and gender, it is important to assess the potential impact of trade policy on both women and men and to develop appropriate policies to ensure that trade contributes to enhancing opportunities for all. Building on new analysis and data broken down by gender, this study aims to advance understanding of the relationship between trade and gender equality and to identify opportunities through which trade can improve the lives of women.Research on gender equality and trade has been held back by limited data as well as by a lack of understanding of the connections between the economic roles women play as workers, consumers and decision-makers. The report, co-published by the World Trade Organization and the World Bank, gathers new data to show how trade and trade policy can affect men and women differently--in terms of wages, consumption and welfare and in the quality of jobs available to them. New analysis based on these data suggests that expanding trade can act as an impetus for countries to improve women's rights and boost female participation in the economy.

Author : Anh-Nga Tran-Nguyen,Americo Beviglia Zampetti
Publisher : United Nations Publications
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822034394791

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Trade and Gender by Anh-Nga Tran-Nguyen,Americo Beviglia Zampetti Pdf

Equal rights between men and women are enshrined as a fundamental human right in the UN Charter, and reflected in various internationally agreed instruments, such as the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Although there has been notable progress in some areas, in most nations women are still at a disadvantage in terms of their role and position in the economic and political arenas. This publication examines the gender dimension of trade and seeks to identify policy challenges and responses to promote gender equality in light of increasing globalisation. Issues discussed include: economics of gender equality, international trade and development; multilateral negotiations on agriculture in developing countries; gender-related issues in the textiles and clothing sectors; international trade in services; gender and the TRIPS Agreement; the impact of WTO rules on gender equality; human rights aspects; fair trade initiatives; the role of IT in promoting gender equality, the Gender Trade Impact Assessment and trade reform.

Author : International Trade Law Center,Arthur E. Appleton,Michael G. Plummer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 3142 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780387226880

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The World Trade Organization by International Trade Law Center,Arthur E. Appleton,Michael G. Plummer Pdf

The editors have succeeded in bringing together an excellent mix of leading scholars and practitioners. No book on the WTO has had this wide a scope before or covered the legal framework, economic and political issues, current and would-be countries and a outlook to the future like these three volumes do. 3000 pages, 80 chapters in 3 volumes cover a very interdiscplinary field that touches upon law, economics and politics.

Author : International Monetary Fund
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781513573779

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China's Rebalancing and Gender Inequality by International Monetary Fund Pdf

This paper examines gender inequality in the context of structural transformation and rebalancing in China. We document declining women's relative wages and labor force participation in China during the last two decades, despite rapid growth and expansion of the service sector. Using household data, we provide evidence consistent with a U-shaped relationship between economic development and women's labor market outcomes. Using a model of structural transformation, we show that labor market barriers for women have increased over time. Model counterfactuals suggest that removing these barriers and increasing service sector productivity can boost both gender equality and economic growth in China.

Author : Song, Ligang,Zhou, Yixiao,Hurst, Luke
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781760463120

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The Chinese Economic Transformation by Song, Ligang,Zhou, Yixiao,Hurst, Luke Pdf

The Chinese Economic Transformation, the 19th volume in the China Update book series, provides an opportunity for young economists to share their views on various issues relating to the Chinese economic transformation. More than half of the contributors to this book are female scholars. Some of the contributors are rising stars in the studies of the Chinese economy and economic transition, and some only recently received their PhDs and are on their way to establishing themselves in the field of China studies. But they have one thing in common: to passionately observe, study and research what is going on in the Chinese economic transformation during the reform period; and, by so doing, make contributions to the policy debates on, and general understanding of, the Chinese economy. The chapters in this volume include an in-depth probe into challenges in capital and credit allocation due to financial friction and policy distortions; investigating the causes of growth slow-down in China and suitable policy responses; the evolution of the household registration system and its impact on off-farm employment and the integration of rural and urban labour markets; the growth, scale and characteristics of nonstandard employment; the development of rural e-commerce and its economic impact; innovation performance of listed enterprises in China; financial services liberalisation and its impact on firms’ performance; financing support schemes for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the effect on banks’ credit allocation to SMEs; the potential costs of US–China trade conflict and ways to mitigate them; gender income gap in China’s labour market; causes of blockage of Chinese overseas direct investment and strategies to reduce the probability of encountering obstacles; and the role of state capital in the iron ore boom in Australia. The great variety of topics in this year’s Update allows readers to understand the current shape of the Chinese economy and to think deeply about policies and necessary reforms for future growth and development.

Author : World Trade Organization
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108423823

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The WTO Agreements by World Trade Organization Pdf

Contains the complete and official texts of the WTO Agreements, collated in one volume.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Trade Organization
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Commercial policy
ISBN : 9789287034953

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Understanding the WTO by Anonim Pdf

Author : Leta Hong Fincher
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783607914

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Leftover Women by Leta Hong Fincher Pdf

‘Scattered with inspiring life-stories of courageous women.’ The Guardian In the early years of the People’s Republic, the Communist Party sought to transform gender relations. Yet those gains have been steadily eroded in China’s post-socialist era. Contrary to the image presented by China’s media, women in China have experienced a dramatic rollback of rights and gains relative to men. In Leftover Women, Leta Hong Fincher exposes shocking levels of structural discrimination against women, and the broader damage this has caused to China’s economy, politics, and development.