Recent works produced by the LAGTN are listed below.  Additional resources can be accessed in IGTN Resource Library and on LAGTN web www.generoycomercio.com

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Comercio Internacional, Agricultura y Alimentación, March 2007, LAGTN.

A capacity-building tool, which presents ideas, data, reflections and exercises on the theme of trade, agriculture and food and its gender impacts in Latin America. This material has only been produced in Spanish and Portuguese.

Seminar on "WTO negotiations: non-agricultural goods liberalization vs. agricultural liberalization", June 2006, LAGTN, CIEDUR, Uruguay.

The interdisciplinary Centre for Development Studies, CIEDUR, organised in June 2006 a seminar to discuss the differential impacts negotiations on industrialized products or “non-agricultural market access” (NAMA) negotiations have on women. Always at the forefront of multilateral activities at the GATT and the World Trade Organization (WTO), commitments on NAMA demand greater liberalization efforts from developing countries, posing serious threats to the development and survival of domestic industries in countries where they have not yet consolidated and where gendered structures also pose differing opportunities, challenges and constraints for men and women. The development effects of NAMA negotiations should then be analysed taking into consideration these inequalities.

Seminar “Las actuales negociaciones comerciales en la OMC y el empleo femenino”. Norma Sanchís, June 2006.

Seminario organizado por el Ministerio de Trabajo, Empleo y Seguridad Social, la Comisión Tripartita de Igualdad de Oportunidades, la Fundación Friedrich Ebert y la Organización Internacional del Trabajo. Norma Sanchís participó con la ponencia "Globalización y empresas trasnacionales". Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Mercosur: are we there yet? From cooperation to integration, January 2005, Alma Espino and Paola Azar, LAGTN, CIEDUR, Uruguay.

The goal of Mercosur, as expressed in the Treaty of Asuncion, is to broaden national markets as a necessary prerequisite to “accelerate the process of economic development in conjunction with social justice” in each of the signatory nations. This objective had to be reached “by making better use of available resources, preserving the environment, coordinating macroeconomic policies and complementing the various sectors of the economy.” Today, after a decade and at least one serious economic crisis have past, where is Mercosur and where is it going?

The authors seek answers to these questions by considering the essential shortcomings of the young integration project and offering recommendations on how to move forward in realizing the positive aspects of integration.

A report on the results and problems that arose from two case studies on the impacts on women of privatization of the management of water services in Brazil and Bolivia in 2003. The actions and policies developed in the report are designed with attention to the global fight against privatization of water resources which take control away from local communities and negatively impact women. In Spanish.

Methodological Notes for the Training of Trainers in Gender, Economics, and Free Trade, June 2004, LAGTN and WIDE.

Women frequently see information on gender, economics, and trade as the preserve of specialists; they do not feel as part of the debates and are not always able to formulate alternatives. For this reason the objective of the training area of the Latin American Chapter of the International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN-LA) is to develop a nucleus of committed women, trained in these topics in order to gradually extend the circles of debate and proposals that can involve other sectors of the women movement. To this end we have initiated a process of training in economics and ree trade that allows activists to add new concepts and information on the impacts of regional governments’ decisions in their demands.  

Trade and Female Employment in Some Latin American Countries, April 2004, Alma Espino, IGTN-Uruguay, LAGTN Coordinator.

This document has been produced as part of the Research Programme of the International Gender and Trade Network (Latin American Chapter), the first stage of which aimed to: (a) improve understanding of the impact of trade policies and in particular the regional and bilateral agreements signed by each of the countries included in the study; (b) identify which sectors of the economy have experienced an influx of women workers, as a result of trade liberalization, and explore how liberalization has affected women workers compared to men; (c) strengthen the capacity of women and women’s organizations to influence political decision-making at local, regional and international levels.  

Economic Openness and Gender Relations: The Case of Uruguay, April 2004, Alma Espino and Paola Azar, IGTN-Uruguay, LAGTN Coordinator.

The present paper contains an account of some central facts useful to start detecting trade liberalization and trade development impacts on women and gender relations in Uruguay. It also seeks to settle a range of key questions which allow to build hypotheses in order to guide a future research.

In line with these purposes, the document explores the main features of the process of economic openness in the country, particularly considering trade liberalization and its effects during the nineties. It examines female labour market performance focusing on women’s participation at some industries which have been classified according to their exposure to international competition; it also considers gender wage gaps and other labour conditions.