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EVENT –
NOVEMBER 2007
Upcoming
Events...
Gender and Trade:
How to engender India’s National
Foreign
Trade Policy?
Lucknow, November 30, 2007
A workshop on "Gender and Trade: How to
Engender the National Foreign Trade Policy
of India" was held in Lucknow on November
30, 2007, in collaboration with Network for
Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
(NEED). While this Policy is an improvement
over the earlier Export-Import Policy of
India, there is a need to look at from a
gender perspective in order to better
understand the human development aspects of
international trade. This series of
workshops attempted to do that by:
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Providing a space to develop ideas on how to
mainstream gender concerns into the National
Foreign Trade Policy of India so that there
are more benefits from trade for the
marginalised sections of our society;
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Gaining a better understanding of the ways
in which liberalised trade has influenced
gender inequalities and relations in
specific sectors, and women's experiences in
particular;
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Providing feedback on the launching of a
forthcoming CUTS initiative on Gender and
Trade, which will further delve into issues
raised at the series of workshops.
Presenters included Anil Singh, Chief
Executive Officer, NEED; R S Ratna,
Director, Regional & Multilateral Trade
Relations, Department of Commerce; R M Nair,
General Manager, Small Industries
Development Bank of India (SIDBI); Dr Pam
Rajput, Executive Director, Women's Resource
and Advocacy Centre; and Rebecca Band, CUTS
CITEE. Paticipants included national and
state government officials, academics, and
members of various non-governmental
organisations (NGOs). This was the last in a
series of three workshops to be held on this
subject.
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National
Consultation
Services Trade and Domestic Regulation in
India
New Delhi, Thursday, November 29, 2007
The National Consultation on Services Trade
and Domestic Regulation in India, to be held
on Thursday, November 29, 2007 at WILLOW Hall,
India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi,
is to invite comments and inputs on the
country background paper and two sectoral case
studies prepared by CUTS CITEE. The following
is the list of issues / subjects which will be
discussed at this consultation. It includes:
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Country background paper on ‘Evolution of
Services in India’
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Country paper on
‘Domestic Preparedness on Services in India’
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Two sectoral case
studies:
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Wholesale Trade
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Education
This consultation is organised by engaging the
policy-makers (including regulators), civil
society representatives, inter-governmental
and multilateral agencies, academics and
media. Country background
paper and two sectoral case studies will be
presented at this meeting. After receiving
comments from various stakeholders, a
synthesis paper will be prepared, outlining
the policy implications and impact of services
liberalisation and domestic regulation on
these countries’ economies. This synthesis
paper will be finalised after conducting the
dissemination meeting so that deliberations at
these meetings are taken on board. It will act
as a policy advocacy document for future.
The objectives of this consultation is:
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To deliberate and invite
comments from various stakeholders on
country background paper and two sectoral
case studies which will be presented at this
consultation.
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To take on board the
deliberations while preparing the synthesis
paper which will act as a policy advocacy
document for future.
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To facilitate interaction
between policy-makers (including
regulators), civil society representatives,
inter-governmental and multilateral
agencies, academics and media.
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