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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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Report
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
Subjects:	GENDER TRADE FACILITATION FREIGHT FORWARDER SURVEY PORT OPERATIONS BORDER PROCEDURES ELECTRONIC DECLARATIONS
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

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spelling	okr-10986-352212021-04-23T14:02:19Z Timor-Leste Trade Facilitation Challenges for Women Traders and Freight Forwarders : Survey Findings and Recommendations World Bank GENDER TRADE FACILITATION FREIGHT FORWARDER SURVEY PORT OPERATIONS BORDER PROCEDURES ELECTRONIC DECLARATIONS 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. 2021-03-09T19:17:35Z 2021-03-09T19:17:35Z 2020-03-01 Report 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 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Women in Development and Gender Study East Asia and Pacific Timor-Leste
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description	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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title	Timor-Leste Trade Facilitation Challenges for Women Traders and Freight Forwarders : Survey Findings and Recommendations
title_short	Timor-Leste Trade Facilitation Challenges for Women Traders and Freight Forwarders : Survey Findings and Recommendations
title_full	Timor-Leste Trade Facilitation Challenges for Women Traders and Freight Forwarders : Survey Findings and Recommendations
title_fullStr	Timor-Leste Trade Facilitation Challenges for Women Traders and Freight Forwarders : Survey Findings and Recommendations
title_full_unstemmed	Timor-Leste Trade Facilitation Challenges for Women Traders and Freight Forwarders : Survey Findings and Recommendations
title_sort	timor-leste trade facilitation challenges for women traders and freight forwarders : survey findings and recommendations
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
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Timor-Leste Trade Facilitation Challenges for Women Traders and Freight Forwarders : Survey Findings and Recommendations

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