Liepollo Lebohang Pheko, IGTN Africa.

Paper presented to the European Commission in Brussels by Liepollo Lebohang Pheko from IGTN-Africa on the gender impacts of liberalization of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA). Lebohang argues that EPAs have not examined the cost of liberalisation on women in terms of physical resources, human resources and social capital needed to transfer resources, skills as control to effectively manage liberalisation. Hence building a broader examination of the liberalization programme of EPAs from a gendered context that is mindful of the non neutrality of the market economy.