Contribution to the 9th Anniversary Edition of the CTIL Magazine, published by the Centre for Trade and Investment Law with the support of India’s Department of Commerce and the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, under the editorship of Prof. James…
Article accepted for publication, analysing whether gender provisions in trade agreements are copied from existing templates and what this imitation Document:https://academic.oup.com/jiel/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jiel…
Expert comment (with Prachi Agarwal, ODI Global) on the EU-India Free Trade Agreement signed in January 2026. It finds that the agreement’s trade and gender provision consists mostly of non-binding commitments that sit under each party’s right to…
Chapter (pp. 471–494; with Nadia Hasham, Chin Lim and Joel Trachtman) offering a practice-based look at the focus areas for integrating gender considerations in trade agreements. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/404413470_Integrating_Gender…
Paper identifying the barriers persons with disabilities face in trade and the disconnect between those barriers and the policy solutions currently found in trade agreements.
In recent years, trade agreements between states have evolved, expanding the topics addressed, including, in some cases, chapters on gender. The general objective of this study is to determine whether the Gender Chapter of the Interim Trade…
The impact of trade agreements is not gender neutral, as women and men play different roles and enjoy different opportunities in society, markets and the economy. In order to minimize the unintended discriminatory impact of these agreements on women…
The purpose of this chapter is threefold: providing an overview and analysis of gender provisions in preferential trade agreements (PTAs), assessing what gender issues are not covered and why, and showing how PTAs can be used as a policymaking tool…
This book explores whether and how trade agreements can enhance women empowerment, how they might be altered to more effectively address such interests, and what different negotiating options countries have for including women’s concerns in their…
Advances in information and communication technology (ICT) have reduced trade costs providing enterprises greater opportunity to access international markets. Using the World Bank's enterprise survey data covering more than 180 000 enterprises from…