Timor-Leste Trade Facilitation Challenges for Women Traders and Freight Forwarders : Survey Findings and Recommendations
Trade is widely recognized to be an engine of growth that creates jobs, reduces poverty, and increases economic opportunity. Trade facilitation measures are non-discriminatory and apply to all traders in their design; however, these measures may no...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/148161614580678363/Timor-Leste-Trade-Facilitation-Challenges-for-Women-Traders-and-Freight-Forwarders-Survey-Findings-and-Recommendations http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35221 |
| Summary: | Trade is widely recognized to be an
engine of growth that creates jobs, reduces poverty, and
increases economic opportunity. Trade facilitation measures
are non-discriminatory and apply to all traders in their
design; however, these measures may not necessarily impact
or benefit all traders in similar ways. There is a global
lack of data on how trade facilitation interventions impact
traders by gender at the firm level. There is also a global
vacuum of knowledge of the exact proportion of cross-border
traders that are women. Few countries, if any, can easily
confirm the number of women that undertake cross-border
trade in their respective countries. This note presents
findings of the survey work in Timor-Leste. Timor-Leste is a
small island country within the Malay Archi-pelago. It
includes the enclave of Oecussi-Ambeno, situated on the
Western (Indonesian) part of the island and the islands of
Atauro and Jaco. There are ports on Oecusse and Atauro
Island that provide domestic ferry traffic, and Dili Port
operates as the only international port for Timor-Leste.
Indonesia is Timor-Leste’s biggest trading partner. |
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