WTO has been focusing on women with the aim of building their capacity to trade and using trade as a tool for their … Declaration on Trade and Women's Economic Empowerment which identified Aid for Trade as a key instrument to assist members in … "analysing, designing and implementing more gender-responsive trade policies". Three key facts on women's economic empowerment …

This paper looks at the various trade policies WTO Members have put into place to foster women's economic empowerment … them have reported at least one trade policy targeting women's economic empowerment. Overall, in four years, almost half of … the WTO membership has implemented trade policies in support of women (at least one). Most (about 70%) of the WTO Members2 …

It is assumed that self-help groups (SHGs) will play a larger role in its countribution towards improving women … paper reviews scope and limitations of self-help groups in improving women's health and empowerment focusing on empirical … viewed only from an economic perspective. The existing approach emphasizes economic development of people and women in …

Forty-five years ago, the first Regional Conference on the Integration of Women into the Economic and Social … Conference of the International Women’s Year (Mexico City, 1975). This meeting culminated in the adoption by the governments of … the region of the Regional Plan of Action for the Integration of Women into Latin American Economic and Social Development …