Vanuatu 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/244961614581245984/Vanuatu-Trade-Facilitation-Challenges-for-Women-Traders-and-Freight-Forwarders-Survey-Findings-and-Recommendations http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35222

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spelling	okr-10986-352222021-04-23T14:02:19Z Vanuatu 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. Designing interventions that are inclusive, benefiting women as well as men, is difficult without accurate data on the gender of those who participate actively in cross-border trade. Without this knowledge and that of the exact challenges faced by both genders, it is also hard to tell how much any subset of the economy would be impacted by any intervention. This lack of data may also reinforce the bias against women in trade policy making. This note presents findings of the survey work in Vanuatu. Vanuatu is an archipelago of 83 islands and relies on its interisland shipping services to connect the outer islands to the main ports of Port Villa and Luganville as well as to support international trade. 2021-03-09T19:23:39Z 2021-03-09T19:23:39Z 2020-04-01 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/244961614581245984/Vanuatu-Trade-Facilitation-Challenges-for-Women-Traders-and-Freight-Forwarders-Survey-Findings-and-Recommendations http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35222 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 Vanuatu
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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. Designing interventions that are inclusive, benefiting women as well as men, is difficult without accurate data on the gender of those who participate actively in cross-border trade. Without this knowledge and that of the exact challenges faced by both genders, it is also hard to tell how much any subset of the economy would be impacted by any intervention. This lack of data may also reinforce the bias against women in trade policy making. This note presents findings of the survey work in Vanuatu. Vanuatu is an archipelago of 83 islands and relies on its interisland shipping services to connect the outer islands to the main ports of Port Villa and Luganville as well as to support international trade.
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title	Vanuatu Trade Facilitation Challenges for Women Traders and Freight Forwarders : Survey Findings and Recommendations
title_short	Vanuatu Trade Facilitation Challenges for Women Traders and Freight Forwarders : Survey Findings and Recommendations
title_full	Vanuatu Trade Facilitation Challenges for Women Traders and Freight Forwarders : Survey Findings and Recommendations
title_fullStr	Vanuatu Trade Facilitation Challenges for Women Traders and Freight Forwarders : Survey Findings and Recommendations
title_full_unstemmed	Vanuatu Trade Facilitation Challenges for Women Traders and Freight Forwarders : Survey Findings and Recommendations
title_sort	vanuatu trade facilitation challenges for women traders and freight forwarders : survey findings and recommendations
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Vanuatu Trade Facilitation Challenges for Women Traders and Freight Forwarders : Survey Findings and Recommendations

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