Data and Statistics for Gender-Responsive Trade Policy

When:
October 04, 2018 @ 08:30 – October 04, 2018 @ 10:00
Where:
WTO Room S3
Rue de Lausanne, 154
in Geneva 1202

Gender-responsive trade policies should be premised on sound statistics. In the Buenos Aires Declaration on Trade and Women’s Economic Empowerment, 123 countries committed to remove barriers to women’s economic empowerment and increase their participation in trade. The panel will consider what the statistical issues at stake are when we talk about “gender and trade” and which data are necessary for gender-responsive trade policy. What should we measure? Are women and men equally empowered to participate in trade? How do trade and trade policies affect their livelihoods? The panel will reflect on current data availability, the need for internationally agreed definitions and resources dedicated to gender and trade statistics. Based on these observations, it will discuss data necessary for inclusive trade policy-making, and will put forward proposals on how to improve data collection and data linking to inform gender-responsive trade policy.

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