Blockchain technology holds considerable promise to boost women’s participation in international trade. Blockchain’s anonymity and efficiency could enable many women, who otherwise would be constrained by law, custom or high costs, to engage in…
The ‘new NAFTA’ agreement between Canada, Mexico, and the United States maintained the system for binational panel judicial review of antidumping and countervailing duty determinations of domestic government agencies. In US–Mexico disputes, this…
Orientation: Whilst Africa is a lucrative market with many opportunities for all types of retailers, expanding into the continent is not without its own challenges. Therefore, foreign direct investors have to make strategic decisions.
Research…
Recent years have seen policymakers give increasing attention to two significant, widespread phenomena: rising inequality (the result of uneven access to productive employment) and
the quickening pace of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) or…
A contribution to the Policy Hackathon on Model Provisions for Trade in Times of Crisis and Pandemic in Regional and other Trade Agreements: https://www.unescap.org/resources/online-repository-contributions-polic…
Abstract:
COVID-19 has put women…
Blockchain technology holds considerable promise to boost women’s participation in international trade. Blockchain’s anonymity and efficiency could enable many women, who otherwise would be constrained by law, custom or high costs, to engage in…
Health pandemics affect women and men differently, and they can make the existing gender inequalities much worse. COVID-19 is one such pandemic, which can have substantial gendered implications both during and in the post-pandemic world. Its…
An opinion on how COVID-19 is inflicting harm to women in trade and commerce, and how free trade agreements might help women gain empowerment in a pandemic-inflicted economy. https://issuu.com/forbeslatam/docs/forbes_agosto_2020
Working with ITC, I have prepared a new and the very first tool-kit to gauge gender responsiveness in trade agreements. The tool-kit is explained in the report I have prepared for ITC. The report also includes ten steps to mainstream gender in trade…
An opinion published in: El Universal, https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/english/covid-19-biased-against-women