While gender and trade is an issue of universal importance and relevance to both developed and developing countries, there are some dimensions within global gender and trade work that have particular significance for developing countries.

The following featured articles address selected issues that are of particular concern to developing countries.

• WTO Agreement on Agriculture and Implications on Food Sovereignty/Security in Africa and the Developing World. By Elijah Wachira, GENTA. February, 2007.
• Developing Countries Resist the Expansion and Consolidation of Market Access in NAMA and Service. By Maria Pia Hernandez. IGTN Secretariat, December, 2005. 
• Developing Countries Challenge Worst of Draft Ministerial Text. By Kristin Sampson and Maria Pia Hernandez, IGTN Secretariat. December, 2005.
• Nationalist Domestic Regulation in the Era of Trade Intensification - Report on the public forum of the same name, held in Quezon City, Philippines - August, 2005.
• Ten Years of the WTO is a Long Wait - Statement from the Training Workshop on Gender and Trade for LDCs, held in Bangkok, Thailand - July, 2005.
• The WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and Sustainable Tourism in Developing Countries - in Contradiction?  By Marianne Hochuli and Christine Plüss. January, 2005.
• Incorporating Gender Considerations for the Designation of Special Products in WTO Agriculture Negotiations - briefing paper aimed at contributing to national discussions in the process of defining SPs - March, 2005.·        
• Unequal Treatment for Unequal Partners, Protecting and Promoting the Interests of Small and Vulnerable States in the International Trade System - November, 2003.
•  Gender and Debt. By Barbara Kalima. June, 2002.
• The Political Economy of Tourism Liberalization, Gender and the GATS. By Mariama Williams, IGTN Jamaica. April, 2002.

Additional articles are available in the IGTN Resource Library.