Women's Studies 1022F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Moral Authority, General Agreement On Tariffs And Trade, World Trade Organization

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 1022F/G
• Professor: Bipasha Baruah

Document Summary

Importance of an integrated approach: synergistic factors create differential outcomes for women and for men, total constraints women face are frequently more than the sum of its parts. Key terms and concepts: globalization processes through which countries and regions are integrated into a world capitalist market. With increasing ease of movement of money, technology, information and goods across national borders, globalization is shifting production practices around the world. In political terms, globalization has reduced the ability of governments to manage their national economies: liberalization- ensuring a free-market economy by removing government interference in the (cid:862)free(cid:863) flo(cid:449) of (cid:373)o(cid:374)e(cid:455), goods, ser(cid:448)i(cid:272)es a(cid:374)d (cid:272)apital, (cid:271)ut (cid:374)ot people. March 15, 2017: deregulation relaxing or removing state controls on wages, prices, foreign exchange rates. Key institutions and policies: world bank, o(cid:374)e of the (cid:449)orld"s largest sour(cid:272)es of de(cid:448)elop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t assista(cid:374)(cid:272)e, headquartered in washington, dc, established in 1944 by a conference of 44 governments in bretton woods, new.