Services Trade and the Gender Wage Gap: The Case of India
Louise Johannesson and
Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås | 31 May 2021
Trade,
Blog | Tags:
India,
Inequality,
Services Trade,
Wage Gap India’s female labour force participation rate is less than half of the global average and the gender wage gap is substantial. With higher tertiary graduation rates and excelling in frontier skills for the future, women constitute a talent pool that India can ill afford to
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Digital Trade Policies – Charting a Way Towards More Transparency
3 June, 2021 15.00-16.00 CET | Online Panel,
Trade | Tags:
Digitalization,
Trade Policy The digital transformation of economic activities, including international trade, has accelerated during the Covid-19 crisis. Consequently, policies affecting trade in the digital economy have gained prominence in the WTO as well as regional trade agreements. The Joint Statement Initiative (JSI) on e-commerce that is currently
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Globalization and Digitalization – Interconnections Between Taxation, Trade and Investment
3, 10, 17, 24 June and 1 July, 2021 14.00-17.00 CET | Online Fiscal,
Trade,
Workshops | Tags:
Digitalization,
Investment,
Services Trade,
Tax Expenditures,
Taxes Recent decades have witnessed structural changes in the way production is organized. Trade and investment liberalization together with technological developments, notably in transport and communications, have substantially reduced trade and foreign investment costs and enabled global value chains, supported by global finance, to proliferate. As
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