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Asia Gender and Trade Network (AGTN) Economic Literacy
The Asia Gender and Trade Network (AGTN) economic literacy focal points are: Reihana Mohideen, Junya Yimprasert of Lek (Thailand) and Gigi Francisco (Philippines). AGTN's current economic literacy resources include: This economic literacy packet is a concise, yet comprehensive analysis of the significance of the inclusion of investment and services in trade negotiations and current issues of specific concern to women. Contents: 1) International Laws on Investment: Creating Consensus on Rights of Foreign Investors; 2) How Investment and Services Became Tradable; 3) Don't Bite the Mode 4 Bait; 4) GATS Mode 4 and Women Migrant Workers; 5) Increased Restrictions in a Limited Space: Women in Asian LDCs, CITs, and Accession Countries; and 6) Ten Years of the WTO is a Long Wait!
This comprehensive economic literacy packet has seven modules: 1) Negotiating the Divides in International Trade and Gender; 2) The Feminization of Labor in Asia; 3) Women's Time and Labor: Double Shift and Multiple Burdens; 4) Issues in Women's Work; 5) Women and Trade in Textiles and Clothing; 6) Women and Trade in Services; and 7) Women and Trade in Agriculture.
This map of Asia with countries classified by trade intensity and trade intensification and a listing of countries throughout the world with their affiliation to international trade agreements accompanies the Asia Economic Literacy Packet #1 - Trade Intensification in Asia Economies: What it Means to Women's Work.
This literacy packet from the Asia region has seven modules: 1) Women and Regional Cooperation on Trade; 2) Trade Intensification, Growth and Social Protection: The Southeast Asian Experience; 3) Issues in Social Policy and Trade Policy; 4) Social Policy and Trade in Agriculture; 5) Social Policy and Trade in Textile and Clothing; 6) Social Policy and Trade in Services; and 7) Finding the Link Between Trade Policy and Social Policy.
This third literacy packet from the Asia region explores: 1) How the WTO Treats National Health Emergencies in the Rubric of TRIPS; 2) the Myth of Market Access in the Agreement on Agriculture; 3) Entitlement to Food as the Alternative to Market Access; and 4) a Human Rights Framework vs. a Free Trade Framework
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Asian Women's Voices on Trade Intensification
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