The Women in Development-Europe (WIDE) organization serves as the econmic literacy focal point for the Gender and Trade Network-Europe (IGTN-Europe).

Additional materials can be found on WIDE's web site, including a manual in Arabic, German, Spanish, Finnish, and French for economic literacy readers.

Current IGTN-Europe economic literacy resources include:

• Social, Economic and Environmental Sustainability from a Gender Perspective: 14 Issues to Tackle

This paper looks at 14 issues of social, economic and environmental sustainability from a gender perspective. These issues are:1) Globalisation and sustainability 2) Peace, non-violence, human and women’s rights 3) Concepts of economy, care work and gender relations 4) Securing survival without social exclusion and poverty 5) Securing livelihoods and biodiversity by resource and gender justice 6) Food sovereignty and health 7) Sustainability in urban, regional and traffic planning 8) Gender mainstreaming in climate protection 9) The Local Agenda 21 and gender issues 10) Redistribution of social and environmental responsibility 11) Sustainability policy as structural policy 12) Concepts of nature and gender relations 13) Gender impact assessment and gender budgets as precautionary instruments 14) Women’s empowerment and gender mainstreaming.

• Instruments for engendering trade agreements

This report from WIDE gives information on a presentation of WIDE's publication "Instruments for gender equality in trade agreements", which took place at the European Parliament in Brussels on 29 May 2002 with the support of the Green EFA Group.

• WIDE Information Sheet: Gender and Trade Indicators

The relationship between gender and trade (in two directions: from gender to trade and from trade to gender) is a new issue. Not for WIDE and a few other women’s organisations, which have been working on the topic since the mid- 1990s. But it is certainly a new issue for governments, trade policy makers, the WTO, and for academic researchers. WIDE therefore has developed a tool that will help to understand, measure and monitor the relationship between trade and gender. This tool consists of three sets of indicators, which can be applied to any trading relationship between countries or trade blocks.

• Investment Protection at All Costs? From NAFTA to MAI to WTO

This paper explores investment in relation to the Doha Resolution; Investment agreements as one-sided enforcement of investor rights from NAFTA...to MAI...to WTO; existing investment agreements: under TRIMS and GATS; bilateral investment agreements; Foreign Direct Investment and who benefits; and investor responsibilities instead of investor rights.