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    Trade Facilitation Challenges for Women Traders in the Pacific Islands and Timor-Leste

    The World Bank Group has completed research to identify the specific challenges men and women traders face. Over 1,500 cross-border trading firms were surveyed in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Timor-Leste, and Vanuatu.

    Source: World Bank Group, 2021

    Policymakers: Goods, Gender and Trade, Oceania,
    The World Bank Group has completed research to identify the specific challenges men and women traders face. Over 1,500 cross-border trading firms were surveyed in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Timor-Leste, and Vanuatu.
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    Trade Facilitation and Gender Dimensions in South Africa

    To identify specific challenges that men and women face in cross-border trade and determine where further reforms can be made, the World Bank Group completed a study on Trade Facilitation and Gender Dimensions in South Africa. Traders, customs brokers and freight forwarders were interviewed.

    Source: World Bank Group, 2022

    Policymakers: Goods, Gender and Trade, Africa,
    To identify specific challenges that men and women face in cross-border trade and determine where further reforms can be made, the World Bank Group completed a study on Trade Facilitation and Gender Dimensions in South Africa. Traders, customs brokers and freight forwarders were interviewed.
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    Trade Facilitation Challenges for Women Traders and Customs Brokers in the Philippines

    To identify the specific challenges that men and women face in cross-border trade and determine where further reforms can be made, the World Bank Group completed the Trade and Gender Study in the Philippines. Over 2,000 traders and customs brokers were interviewed.

    Source: World Bank Group, 2022

    Policymakers: Goods, Gender and Trade, Asia & Middle East,
    To identify the specific challenges that men and women face in cross-border trade and determine where further reforms can be made, the World Bank Group completed the Trade and Gender Study in the Philippines. Over 2,000 traders and customs brokers were interviewed.
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    Trade Facilitation Challenges for Women Traders and Customs Brokers in Brazil

    Given the critical role of women in helping to reduce poverty coupled with the importance of trade in linking businesses to global value chains, the World Bank Group completed the Trade and Gender Study in Brazil to identify the specific challenges that men and women-led firms face in cross-border trade and determine where further reforms can be made. Over 1,500 trade firms and 300 customs brokers were interviewed.

    Source: World Bank Group, 2022

    Policymakers: Goods, Gender and Trade, South & Central America and the Caribbean,
    Given the critical role of women in helping to reduce poverty coupled with the importance of trade in linking businesses to global value chains, the World Bank Group completed the Trade and Gender Study in Brazil to identify the specific challenges that men and women-led firms face in cross-border trade and determine where further reforms can be made. Over 1,500 trade firms and 300 customs brokers were interviewed.
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    Gender Disaggregated Labor Database

    The Gender Disaggregated Labor Database (GDLD) is a global micro labor force database based on the World Bank’s household survey collection and other public resources. This database includes harmonized economic activities and occupation categories from local classification to international comparable classifications in detailed levels.

    Source: World Bank Group

    Policymakers: Gender and Trade,
    The Gender Disaggregated Labor Database (GDLD) is a global micro labor force database based on the World Bank’s household survey collection and other public resources. This database includes harmonized economic activities and occupation categories from local classification to international comparable classifications in detailed levels.
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    Cross-Border Value Chain Development: A Rough Guide to Market Systems Development for Decent Work

    This guide intends to help value chain practitioners to account for the added complexities arising from the cross-border nature of value chains, and understand the impactions on decent work such that they can magnify positive effects and minimise negative ones. The guide builds on the Guide to Value Chain Development for Decent Work and the ILO experience accumulated in market systems development projects.

    Source: International Labour Organization (ILO), 2022

    Policymakers: Goods, Services, Capacity Building,
    This guide intends to help value chain practitioners to account for the added complexities arising from the cross-border nature of value chains, and understand the impactions on decent work such that they can magnify positive effects and minimise negative ones. The guide builds on the Guide to Value Chain Development for Decent Work and the ILO experience accumulated in market systems development projects.
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    Sinergias para un comercio inclusivo y sostenible, el caso de la Alianza del Pacífico

    Este documento visibiliza los vínculos entre el comercio internacional y distintos aspectos de la sostenibilidad a partir de la experiencia de la Alianza del Pacífico en áreas específicas: empoderamiento económico de las mujeres e igualdad de género; economía circular y bioeconomía; e internacionalización de las mipymes.

    Source: United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

    Policymakers: Sustainability, South & Central America and the Caribbean,
    Este documento visibiliza los vínculos entre el comercio internacional y distintos aspectos de la sostenibilidad a partir de la experiencia de la Alianza del Pacífico en áreas específicas: empoderamiento económico de las mujeres e igualdad de género; economía circular y bioeconomía; e internacionalización de las mipymes.
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    Promoción de la inserción internacional de pequeñas y medianas empresas (pymes) mediante plataformas digitales en la Alianza del Pacífico

    La CEPAL, en el marco del acuerdo de cooperación con la República de Corea, puso en marcha un proyecto para identificar los obstáculos que enfrentan las pymes de la Alianza del Pacífico (AP) para exportar a países del bloque a través de comercio electrónico, en particular a través plataformas digitales, y las políticas públicas e iniciativas que pueden contribuir a superarlos.

    Source: United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

    Policymakers: Digital Trade & E-Commerce, South & Central America and the Caribbean,
    La CEPAL, en el marco del acuerdo de cooperación con la República de Corea, puso en marcha un proyecto para identificar los obstáculos que enfrentan las pymes de la Alianza del Pacífico (AP) para exportar a países del bloque a través de comercio electrónico, en particular a través plataformas digitales, y las políticas públicas e iniciativas que pueden contribuir a superarlos.
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    Tecnologías innovadoras para la exportación y el e-commerce transfronterizo de las pymes

    Este curso es organizado por la División de Comercio Internacional e Integración de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en colaboración con la Red Iberoamericana de entidades de promoción de exportaciones y atracción de inversiones (REDIBERO), y con el apoyo del Gobierno de la República de Corea (ROK) en el marco del proyecto CORPYME.

    Source: United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

    Policymakers: Digital Trade & E-Commerce, South & Central America and the Caribbean,
    Este curso es organizado por la División de Comercio Internacional e Integración de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en colaboración con la Red Iberoamericana de entidades de promoción de exportaciones y atracción de inversiones (REDIBERO), y con el apoyo del Gobierno de la República de Corea (ROK) en el marco del proyecto CORPYME.
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    Corpyme

    CORPYME is an action plan supported by the Government of the Republic of Korea and implemented by ECLAC to strengthen the capacities of governments to promote the internationalization of SMEs in the countries of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) through greater use of information technologies and export innovation.

    Source: United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

    Policymakers: Capacity Building, South & Central America and the Caribbean,
    CORPYME is an action plan supported by the Government of the Republic of Korea and implemented by ECLAC to strengthen the capacities of governments to promote the internationalization of SMEs in the countries of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) through greater use of information technologies and export innovation.
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    Working with Smallholders, a Handbook for Firms Building Sustainable Supply Chains (Third Edition)

    Working with smallholders: a handbook for firms building sustainable supply chains compiles innovative solutions and cutting-edge ideas to meet the challenges and illustrating these points through a variety of case studies from initiatives around the world.

    Source: World Bank Group

    Businesses: Policymakers: Capacity Building, Regulation & Standards,
    Working with smallholders: a handbook for firms building sustainable supply chains compiles innovative solutions and cutting-edge ideas to meet the challenges and illustrating these points through a variety of case studies from initiatives around the world.
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    World Bank Trade and Gender

    The World Bank Group is working on many parallel paths towards strengthening existing knowledge on the relationship between trade and gender.

    Source: World Bank Group

    Businesses: Policymakers: Goods, Services, Gender and Trade,
    The World Bank Group is working on many parallel paths towards strengthening existing knowledge on the relationship between trade and gender.