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Gender, Social Equity and Regional Economic Processes: Latin America and the Pacific perspectives

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Alma Espino and Yvonne Underhill-Sem discuss the issue of regionalism and regionalization in Latin America and in the Pacific. Although there are important differences between these realities, they highlight advantages, dangers and challenges of economic integration for gender and social equity focusing on the power relations operating at various levels. They emphasize the need to improve knowledge about the gender dimension of these processes. Understanding the gendered implications of the geographic expansion of global capitalism will allow feminists to build proposals of economic integration schemes that are more comprehensive, gender-aware and oriented to human development.

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  1. A greater structural heterogeneity thus extending the inequalities, which can be seen from the value recorded by the Gini index. This index records the lowest value (49.7) in the group of countries of moderate structural heterogeneity increases for intermediate structural heterogeneity (52.2) and in countries with severe structural heterogeneity reaches 53.3. This classification‐moderate, intermediate and sever structural heterogeneity – was made based on various indicators of economic performance, employment and structural heterogeneity: GDP per capita, GDP per worker, employment rate/population, composition of GDP and employment by strata productive productivity productive stratum (ECLAC, 2011).

  2. The total exports in Mercosur were just over 20 percent in the peak intensity of the regional bond (1997 and 1998).

  3. In the XXVI meeting that congregate gender authorities at the international level in Mercosur, was adopted a new name, from the Special Meeting to ‘Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities of Women’, as recorded in the Council Resolution Common Market – CMC – No. 24/02/11, allowing visible place gender authorities in the host countries.

  4. In December 2010, the REM began to develop a regional survey for the conformation of comparable indicators on gender-based violence. These indicators should come from public services in the field of women's mechanisms, the system of justice, the police or the health system of each country.

  5. It was established a Technical Committee on Gender, Labour and Economic Integration, and they are working on a plan to advance in this area.

  6. The Plan contains lines, guidelines and priorities for the coordinated action of the States’ parties in the matter of social policy. It is considered an instrument able to articulate and develop specific actions to strengthen the social dimension of Mercosur. The most important issues are universal health, education, guarantees of access to decent work and welfare rights and it also emphasizes the need to promote distributive policies and ensuring the effective implementation of human rights in the region and appreciation of cultural diversity.

  7. http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/59/5/42139479.pdf.

  8. Cook Islands, Nuie and Tokelau.

  9. Palau, FSM, Marshall Islands, Guam, Northern Marianas and American Samoa.

  10. French Polynesia, New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna.

  11. http://www.msgsec.info/.

  12. http://www.wia.gov.mp/mces.php.

  13. http://www.tevakamoana.org/.

  14. http://tppdigest.org/.

  15. http://capecffa.org/IMG/pdf/Oceanic_Devt_2010_EU_Preferential_RoO_for_Fish_%28PACP_RoO_section%29.pdf: 119.

  16. Tuara Demke (2006, http://www.ffa.int/system/files/%252Fhome/ffaadmin/%252Ffiles/ffa/Gender%20issues%20in%20P.%20I.%20Tuna%20Industries%201.pdf). Also Slatter, Amberson-Bain, etc.

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Espino, A., Underhill-Sem, Y. Gender, Social Equity and Regional Economic Processes: Latin America and the Pacific perspectives. Development 55, 358–368 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2012.59

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