IGTN working paper highlights systemic and legal issues that the move toward regionalism both from the point of view of consistency as well as from a developmental and gender-friendly perspective. It points out both systemic and rules-related dangers from a gender perspective.  It is worth highlighting critical systemic and legal issues, while exemplifying political guidelines that underpin economic official discourse on development and integration of developing countries in the world trading system as a means for development, and exposes main policy guidelines on free trade initiatives of the EC and the USA.

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Spanish version at: www.igtn.org/page/810