Report of the International Conference
“Moving towards Gender
Sensitisation of Trade Policy”
New Delhi, India, 25–27 February 2008
Organised and Serviced by:
UNCTAD under the Project
“Strategies and Preparedness for Trade and Globalisation in India”
of UNCTAD, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (Government of India) and United Kingdom’s
Department for International Development
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Contents
I
Background.................................................................................................................................................................1
II Inauguration...............................................................................................................................................................2
III Programme..................................................................................................................................................................3
IV Conclusions and Recommendations.................................................................................................................4
(A) Conclusions—Enhancing win-win outcomes for gender, trade and development..................4
(B) Recommendations—Empowering women and their contribution................................................7
to trade and development
ANNEXES
I Inaugural Address of Ms. Meira Kumar, Minister for.................................................................................. 13
Social Justice and Empowerment
II Statement by Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi, Secretary-General of UNCTAD........................................ 15
III Statement by Mr. G.K. Pillai, Commerce Secretary, Government of India......................................... 18
IV Statement by Mr. Abhijit Das, Deputy Project Coordinator and Officer in Charge........................ 19
UNCTAD India Progarmme
V Statement by Mr. Chris Murgatroyd, Head Resources and Senior....................................................... 21
Governance Advisor, DFID India
VI Statement by Ms. Nandita Das, Film Actress and Director...................................................................... 22
VII Statement by Ms. Nafisa Ali, Film Actress, Social Activist and............................................................... 23
Chairperson of the Children’s Film Society
VIIIConference Programme...................................................................................................................................... 24
IX List of Participants................................................................................................................................................. 28
I
Background
T
he international conference on “Moving
towards gender sensitisation of trade policy”
took place in New Delhi, India, 25–27 February 2008.
It provided a forum for Indian and international trade
and gender experts to (a) discuss trade performance
and gender linkages in India and globally, in the
context of globalisation; and (b) propose actions
and directions towards enhanced and more effective
gender sensitisation of trade policy, with particular
reference to India and generally to developing
countries.
Several papers were discussed at the conference.
The list is attached as annex VIII, together with the
programme. Evidence from these empirical research
and policy analyses provides a comprehensive
overview and new thinking on trade and gender
issues in India at the sectoral, regional and national
level, as well as globally, with a view to mainstreaming
gender into trade policy and trade agreements.
These papers will be consolidated into a publication
and released at a later date by the UNCTAD/DFID/
India project.
The conference was organised and serviced
by UNCTAD under the project “Strategies and
Preparedness for Trade and Globalisation in India”
of UNCTAD, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry
(Government of India) and the United Kingdom’s
Department for International Development (DFID).
It falls within the project’s efforts and that of the
three collaborating partners to promote pro-poor
approaches to trade and development in India and
globally in an era of rapid globalisation.
In an innovative effort to raise awareness and
disseminate findings of empirical analysis to a wider
audience, four documentary films were produced
on women in trade in India for the conference, under
contract from the UNCTAD/DFID/India project, by
Mr. Ajay Shetty and Mrs. Ansuya Vaidya of SaaReeGaa
Productions (New Delhi). These documentaries
were entitled: (a) Karmayogini:1 The Indian Women
Worker in the Age of Globalisation (1 hour); (b)
Karmayogini: Threads of Silk and Gold (30 minutes);
(c) Karmayogini: Village of Looms (30 minutes);
and (d) Karmayogini: Gold of the Sea (30 minutes).
The documentaries will be disseminated via media
outlets throughout India and at international events
to raise awareness on women’s contribution to trade
in India.
The meeting was attended by about 194
participants from India and abroad, including
policymakers, academia, civil society, private sector,
international organisations and media. The list of
participants is attached as annex IX.
1
Karamyogini is a Hindi word that denotes a person who thinks that his or her destiny is to keep working.
II
Inauguration
T
he conference was inaugurated by Honourable
Mrs. Meira Kumar, Minister for Social Justice
and Empowerment, Government of India; Dr. Supachai
Panitchpakdi, Secretary-General of UNCTAD; and
Mr. G.K. Pillai, Commerce Secretary, Department of
Commerce and Industry, Government of India. Also
in attendance at the inauguration were Mrs. Lakshmi
Puri, Acting Deputy Secretary-General of UNCTAD;
Mr. Abhijit Das, Officer in Charge, UNCTAD India
Project; Mr. Chris Murgatroyd, DFID India; Ms. Nafisa
Ali, actress and Chairperson, Children’s Film Society of
India; and Ms. Nandita Das, actress and Director.
Mrs. Kumar urged stakeholders to work together
so that trade policy outcomes could promote
women empowerment and in turn stimulate trade.
She said that women’s empowerment is a process in
which women gain a greater share of control over
material, human and intellectual resources, resulting
in greater voice and participation in decision-making
in the home, community, society and nation. Her
statement is attached as annex I.
Dr. Supachai stressed that gender equality was
enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations
and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
and one of the Millennium Development Goals.
He noted that the association between trade
performance and women empowerment could
be positive, but it cannot be assumed to be either
automatic or generalised. Actions at the national
and the international level that mainstreamed
gender considerations into trade policy and trade
agreements are required to make trade bring
development gains to women, their families, the
industries in which they are employed, and their
country. His statement is attached as annex II.
Mr. Pillai said that the new Foreign Trade Policy of
India, to be announced in April 2008, would contain
specific gender-sensitive aspects. This was a novel
element, as past policies did not contain gender
sensitive issues. These would include incentives and
schemes for women engaged in export and import
activities, including women entrepreneurs and
exporters. His statement is attached as annex III.
Introductory remarks were made by Mr. Abhijit
Das (annex IV).
Mr. Chris Murgatroyd said that DFID is committed
to focusing on women’s empowerment within its
broad approach to eradicating poverty. It stressed
improvement in the social status of women and
girls through employment in the labour market, and
their access to important services such as health
and education, he said. In regard to trade, a strong
theme of DFID was ensuring endeavours aimed at
mainstreaming of women, particularly poor women,
into core economic activities to realise development
benefits. His statement is attached as annex V.
During the inaugural session, celebrity guests
Ms. Nandita Das and Ms. Nafisa Ali released the four
documentary films on women in trade in India. Ms.
Das stressed the need to engage in practical activities
with concerned stakeholders—women—to improve
their livelihood and to avoid tokenism (see annex VI).
Gender sensitisation should be a normal effort in a
complex world of globalisation with its challenges and
opportunities. Ms. Ali said that the documentary films
were important as they would carry messages on gender
sensitisation to a wider audience more effectively (see
annex VII). These should be featured in prime time
media to include local vernacular to reach out to the
grassroots level. In fact, bringing gender equity at the
grassroots level deserved attention. Women tended to
work harder than men and have immense creativity,
she said. Thus, harnessing their capacity for trade and
development was for the benefit of all. There was a
brief projection of the documentaries.
Ms. Rini Khanna was the Master of Ceremonies
for the inaugural session.
III
T
Programme
he Conference programme contained the
following sessions:
Inauguration;
1. Gender and international trade: Opportunities
and concerns;
2. Women in trade: Journey to success;
3. Sector-specific gender dimensions of
international trade: Fisheries, handicrafts
and services;
4. Trade and gender: Experiences of other
countries and regions;
5. Mainstreaming of gender in trade
negotiations: Voices from policy makers and
gender experts; and
Conclusion
The technical sessions of the workshop were
chaired by Mrs. Lakshmi Puri (UNCTAD); Dr. Kiran
Chadha (Government of India); Mr. Anand S. Bhal
(Department for International Development—India);
Ms. Deborah McGurk (Department for International
Development–India); and Mr. Bonapas Onguglo
(UNCTAD).
Presentations and discussions on various
sessions were made by: Mr. Abhijit Das (UNCTAD
India Project); Dr. Shahid Ahmed (UNCTAD India
Project); Dr. K. P. Sunny (National Productivity
Council, India); Mrs. Rama Devi (Association of
Lady Entrepreneurs of Andhra Pradesh, India); Mrs.
Archana Bhatanagar (Mahakaushal Association of
Women Entrepreneurs, India); Dr. Mansi Mishra
(Centre for Social Research, India); Mr. Sanjeev
Vasudev (Strategy Technology & Delivery for
Development Consulting Pvt. Ltd, India); Dr. Rashmi
Banga (UNCTAD India Project); Ms. Jacqueline
Maleko (Government of the United Republic of
Tanzania); Ms. Hameda Deaat (South Africa, Third
world Network); Ms. Marzia Fontana (Institute of
Development Studies, United Kingdom); Dr. Indira
Hirway (Centre for Development Alternatives,
India); Dr. Swapna Mukhopadhyay (National
Institute of Public Finance and Policy, India); Ms.
Yumiko Yamamoto (United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP), Sri Lanka); Dr. Selim Raihan
(University of Dhaka, Bangladesh); Dr. Mohammad
A. Razzaque (Commonwealth secretariat); Dr.
Günseli Berik (University of Utah, United States);
Dr. Karin Ulmer(Association of World Council of
Churches Related Development Organisations
in Europe), Belgium); Dr. Lanyan Chen (Tianjin
Normal University of China, China); Professor Shirin
Rai (University of Warwick, UK); Mrs. Appolonia
Mugumbya (East African Energy Technology
Development Network, Uganda); Dr. Yassine Fall
(UNDP); Ms. Rezani Aziz (Women’s Chamber of
Commerce & Industry, Sri Lanka); Dr. Safdar Sohail
(D.G. Foreign Trade Institute of Pakistan, Pakistan),
and Mr. Md. Osman Goni Talukder, (Government of
Bangladesh).
Ms. Shreemoyee Patra, independent consultant,
was the rapporteur of the conference. She presented
the main findings of the conference at the concluding
session.
At the closure of the conference, concluding
remarks were made by Mr. Bonapas Onguglo, Chief,
Officer of the Director, Division on International Trade
in Goods and Services, and Commodities, UNCTAD.
He thanked all the participants, presenters and
discussants as well as the documentary producers
for their valuable inputs, and the staff of the UNCTAD
India project for their effective organisation and
servicing of the conference.
IV
Conclusions and
Recommendations
T
he conference deliberations, papers presented
and documentaries provide a rich, diverse and
extensive coverage, with often provocative and novel
ideas, on the relationship between trade performance,
gender empowerment, and development in India
and globally against the backdrop of economic
liberalisation and globalisation. These will help to
inform and shape trade policy deliberations and policy
formulation in India, in other developing countries,
and globally in international trade and investment
negotiations and development assistance, with a
view to ensuring that trade liberalisation and trade
expansion is inclusive of gender dimensions.
The conclusions and recommendations can
serve (a) as critical inputs on trade, gender and
development to the UNCTAD XII Conference, 20–25
April 2008 in Accra, Ghana; (b) for the implementation
of the Foreign Trade Policy of India; and (c) for
international solidarity initiatives on strengthening
trade’s contribution to empowering women.
(A)Conclusions—Enhancing win-win
outcomes for gender, trade and
development
Broadly, the Conference recognised that women
are indeed significant stakeholders in trade-led
growth and development. On average, available
evidence indicates a positive relationship between
trade performance, women’s empowerment
and development at the macro-level. However,
trade expansion has been beneficial to women’s
employment in those countries that have a
comparative advantage in the production of labour
intensive goods (textiles, footwear, electronics), and
not necessarily in all countries.
Trade can empower women and empowered
women can further enhance trade. Yet there
is evidence to suggest that men and women
experience the impacts of trade policy differently.
Thus, gender sensitisation of trade policy needs to
be taken seriously.
A gender-sensitive approach to trade must
involve a vision of trade as an integral component of
wider development efforts to eradicate poverty and
promote inclusive, people-centered development.
Explicit and specific attention to gender issues in
trade and development policies, strategies and
operational actions is crucial to maximising the
gains for gender equality and minimising the costs
that can arise. Attitudes and mentalities towards
gender relations should change from symbolic to
real support within and beyond the household.
The situation in India and in many Asian
developing countries presently shows progress
towards empowering women through trade. But
this trend is yet to achieve notable improvements
in terms of equitable distribution of household
responsibilities, equal pay for work of equal value,
gender balance across occupations and gender
sensitisation. Thus gender sensitisation in trade
policy remains a development priority.
Women’s empowerment is inevitably and
increasingly affected by the ongoing process of
globalisation and liberalisation. Empirical analysis
on trade openness and women’s empowerment, on
average, show a positive correlation—the Gender
Development Index (GDI) and trade openness are
positively associated in several countries and in India.
Trade performance, economic growth and women’s
empowerment thus can be positive and mutually
supportive. However, such an outcome cannot be
assumed to be either automatic, as women can
also lose from trade liberalisation and globalisation,
nor can this be generalised, as the impact varies
across economic sectors and women’s groups (poor
women, girl labour, women in paid employment,
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women subsistence worker, women entrepreneurs,
women in industries, women in services).
effects should be anticipated to inform and help
design trade policy to deal with such effects.
Liberalisation of trade (unilaterally, under
World Trade Organization (WTO) or regional trade
agreements) in agriculture, industry and services
has in some sectors opened new job opportunities
for some women (skill and unskilled) and expanded
income-earning opportunities. Participation in
international trade can also bring about incentives
to improve working conditions under which women
toil. For example, importers’ insistence on adherence
to certain working conditions and practices is seen
to benefit women employed in export-oriented
units, which often are compelled to provide sanitary
facilities or day care to support their women workers.
Thus, there is a direct link between trade openness,
export increases and increases in women’s workforce
participation, pay and working conditions.
Moreover, gains for gender from export-led
growth in one country may be realised at the cost
of losses for gender in another country. Thus the
overall benefit from trade liberalisation globally for
gender should be kept in mind.
However, trade liberalisation can also bring
about detrimental effects on women. The end to the
Agreement on Textiles and Clothing as a result of the
creation of WTO led to an increase in competition
for ready-made garments and loss of production
and exports in many countries, and consequently
on women workers in this sector. Many such women
workers are engaged in the production of garments
as a source of income. Thus, the loss of incomeearning opportunities has major potential to
increase poverty. Also, while increased exports have
been associated with increased female employment
in several countries (such as Mauritius, Tunisia, Sri
Lanka, Bangladesh), this was not necessarily the case
for all countries. It is bringing gains for women in
countries that have a strong comparative advantage
in textiles such as China, Bangladesh and India, but
losses in other countries, especially African countries
that are losing because of cheaper imports.
It is thus important to analyse the conditions
needed to ensure that a trade-led growth strategy
will contribute to redress existing gender disparities.
A trade-supported development strategy needs to
look at sequencing, phasing in of trade liberalisation
and other social and economic policies, or
institutional frameworks that need to be in place
to ensure that women and men will be enabled to
benefit from new opportunities.
To sustain and widen possible win-win outcomes
for gender, trade and for development, negative
In regard to the experience in India, several
findings are notable. Firstly, women employment
and wages have increased in export oriented sectors
with dynamic export growth and large concentration
of women. Women’s employment in India following
reform and liberalisation has increased on average
to the extent of about 5–10 percent. Demand for
both skilled and unskilled women labour has been
found to increase in recent years. The direct link
between exports and female employment is visible
in the gender intensive sectors such as textiles,
handicrafts, and fisheries. It indicates that trade can
lift women out of poverty and improve their social
status. Women’s empowerment through trade has
helped to significantly improve some women’s
status compared to their former unpaid or poorly
paid work and associated feeble social status and
negligible decision-making power.
The positive effect of trade expansion on
women’s employment and wages has started to
positively affect intra-household dynamics in India
and generated positive development spill-over
effects in terms of social empowerment. Wherever
female employment and income opportunities have
improved, women became increasingly empowered
as follows:
(a) Wages earned in trade-related sector confer a
higher status on women and give them decision
making power in the house. For instance, in
India, husband’s cooperation in the household
work has been reported to increase in the recent
years.
(b)Even in the case of casual labour, the enhanced
employment opportunities enabled the women
to use their potential in the labour market and
to achieve economic independence to a limited
extent.
(c) There is also some evidence that women who
earn more money are increasingly able to keep
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it and decide how to spend it—gaining some
control over their income.
However, it needs to be recognised that
employment may initiate such a process of women’s
empowerment. But intra-household bargaining
power of women is contingent on the level of their
wages and the stability of their jobs as well.
Trade liberalisation can also bring about negative
impacts on women. The following were observed
for India in particular:
(a) Women appear to have borne the major
brunt of fall in employment in case of
declining exports sectors. In India, tea and
coffee production which are dominated
by plantation production and are labourintensive experienced a sharp fall in exports
due to other competitive producers in the
international market. As a direct result, there
was a concomitant strong drop in women
employment in the plantations.
(b) In some sectors, agriculture in particular, it has
been documented that once a profitable activity
is developed by women and modernised,
making it export worthy and lucrative, men
often take it over. The continued practice of
agricultural subsidies and value added processed
in mainly developed countries leads to imports
of subsidised food in developing countries, and
thus reduction in domestic production and
decline in food processing industry. This further
reduces women participation in agricultural
production. Female share of employment
in agriculture (rural and urban) in India, for
example, has declined. Thus, women become
de-empowered with de-feminisation of women
in some productive sectors.
(c) At the same time, many poor farmers transform
their agricultural production towards cash
crops for export and away from food crops. This
increases their food security vulnerability as
they are now reliant on imports of food. Lack
of food often means less food for women and
girls, undermining their health and potential
contribution.
(d) Exposure to global markets does render export
oriented sectors more vulnerable to international
price fluctuations and issues related to
international supply chain and distribution chain
dynamics. This creates a situation of insecurity
for women workers in these sectors, who are
often precariously attached to their occupations
through loose and casual arrangements with
their employers.
(e) Women are not perceived as business persons
and interfacing with them is still awkward for
many men.
(f ) Women face discrimination in seeking assistance
from financial institutions.
(g) Women in the workforce face challenges in
balancing household responsibilities with work
and entrepreneurial demands, often leading to
stress and tensions within families. This includes
situations in which when a women attains
professional success exceeding that of her
husband; she may be forced to slow down or
start afresh. Such compulsions on the personal
front simply do not exist for men.
Secondly, there is a definite increase in demand
for casual workers to cope with export-related
trade growth, which leads to a rise in the informal
sector workers, a high percentage of them women.
This is witnessed, for example, in the tea and coffee
plantation, fisheries, food processing and textile
sectors. It offers opportunities for poor, uneducated
women that may not find employment otherwise.
Conversely, women’s work in the vast informal
sector, especially as casual labour, is often insecure,
temporary or part-time, with little protection,
and few fringe benefits. Also, casual labour, while
providing employment for women, can be easily
hired or laid-off depending on demand fluctuations.
Thus, employment is precarious. Women are also
subjected to poor wages and conditions of work, as
well as to exploitation and sexual harassment. The
generally low levels of education and skill formation
among the female casual workers confine them
mostly to low paid, unskilled jobs and increases
their “vulnerability”.
Thirdly, income for both male and female workers
has improved wherever trade and globalisation
has positively affected the labour market. In
India the daily earnings of workers increased in
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the horticulture, dairy, textiles and clothing, and
fisheries sectors, which experienced high export
growth rates.
Conversely, available evidence also indicates that
benefits collected by the male workers tend to be
higher than that of female workers in terms of gains in
income. Female workers earn less than male workers
irrespective of the industry, region or location. In
practice in India, women’s wages on average are
about 30 percent lower than men’s. Male-female
wage differential in all sectors taken together has
increased (i.e. male wages have increased more than
women). Women wages remain lower than men,
even after trade liberalisation and trade growth.
Sometimes the genesis of the wage differential
lays, in the fact that women were largely confined
to low end, labour intensive, unskilled and hence
poorly remunerative work. This wage differential
may be a factor in maintaining competitiveness and
thus is being perpetuated. However, it was observed
that competitiveness could be maintained through
various means while reducing the pay gap between
women and men. Also, years of education and
skill have positive effects on the workers’ earning
capability. Further, in many sectors the majority of
income increases was captured by middlemen and
exporters. Women in particular suffer from such
exploitation by middlemen, exacerbated by the lack
of ownership of property or lack of representation in
producer associations.
Fourthly, in the services sectors, empirical
evidence for India shows that female employment
opportunities and earnings, along with that of men,
could improve considerably in the fast-growing
sectors, especially communications and tourism.
The services sector, especially Information and
Technology Enabled Services (ITES), offers women
unique opportunities for work such as work from
home, flexi-timing and part-timing working. The
liberalisation of movement of labour (Mode 4 of
General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS))
can bring important benefits to women service
providers in international markets.
On the other hand, the men are more likely to
capture most of the benefits of services expansion
in communications, and thus the wage disparities
between genders is maintained or even worsened. Employment opportunities offered by this sector in
terms of working from home, part-time employment
and flexi-timing were being availed of only in a
limited way. Further, gains from trade in services in
India accrue mainly to the educated urban women.
Also, liberalisation of essential services like water,
education and health leading to the privatisation
of these services has in several countries resulted
in limiting access to these services by especially
poor women (and men), by raising the price of
such services. This propagates gender inequality as
women are prevented from progressing in education
and safeguarding their health, especially in countries
where women now suffer from HIV/AIDS.
(B)Recommendations—Empowering
women and their contribution to trade
and development
The challenge ahead is to improve awareness of
women’s overall participation and contribution in the
economy, adapt trade policy and trade agreements to
include gender considerations, design and implement
new ones within wider development strategies, and
promote international solidarity initiatives that will
promote the positive role that women play in society
and in the economy, and ensure win-win gains in the
relationship between gender equality, trade growth,
development and poverty reduction.
1. Economic empowerment of women
must be both quantitative and
qualitative
Women’s empowerment is important in achieving
gender equality, promoting development, and
contributing to the achievement of internationally
agreed development goals including the Millennium
Development Goals. Gender equality is preserved in
the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights.
Operationalising women’s empowerment,
however, requires clarity regarding its definition.
Women’s empowerment must be both quantitative
(for example increasing job opportunities, providing
skills and training), and qualitative (for example
improving working conditions, wages, social status).
The quantitative and qualitative empowering of
women should contribute to changing deep-rooted
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attitudes and mindsets regarding the dominant
“patriarchal relationships” in social and economic
activities of society in the globalising world
economy, towards greater gender sensitive culture.
Stereotyping of women’s role in social and economic
spheres needs to be broken.
The failure of countries and the international
community to marshal efforts to empower women
in economic development will be to the detriment
of the global community as it perpetuates
inequalities between gender, and hence poverty
and underdevelopment of society.
The following recommendations towards
integration of gender in international development
discourse were advocated:
(a) Specific gender perspective should be
incorporated into the mandates, policies and
operational activities of international institutions.
Ensuring coherence between international
institutions is required so that sensitivity to
gender issues is focused on promoting inclusive
development and reducing poverty as ultimate
objective.
(b) UNCTAD, as a development institution, has an
important role in advancing an international
agenda on gender sensitisation through its
policy advocacy, intergovernmental consensus
building and operational activities. Further,
UNCTAD must strengthen UN-wide coordination
on trade and gender matters.
(c) Other
United
Nations
organisations,
international and regional development
banks and organisations, must emphasise
gender issues in their policies and operational
activities, so that a holistic approach to gender
improvement internationally is promoted.
Policy coherence on gender mainstreaming
between the World Bank and International
Monetary Fund on the one hand, and the
United Nations–UNCTAD on the other on
gender mainstreaming is needed for a
coordinated approach.
(d) It is important for Governments and multilateral
agencies to converge with organisations active
at the grassroots to share their experiences at
the operational level, while providing to them a
wider perspective that makes their work more
meaningful.
2. Making visible the invisible
contribution of women in economic
growth
Women comprise significant stakeholders in the
process of trade, economic growth and development.
In several newly industrialising countries of East
Asia, their export-led growth is very much femaleled as well. Women power is an invisible force of
economies. It is recognised the world over that
women have exceptional multi-tasking skills in
balancing responsibilities of home towards their
families and relatives (unpaid) and workplace in the
organised labour market, or in self-employed small
business or in subsistence farming, fishing, forestry
and mining. These show their endurance, dexterity
and creativity.
Paradoxically, this invisible force of women
power is underutilised and underexploited.
Women, especially poor women, work in the most
physically exacting, poorly paid, labour-intensive
tasks, often in inclement, unhygienic and stressful
conditions. Women’s employment in India is the
highest in the traditional low-wage activities, for
example. Women lack access to and ownership
of land and capital, and have limited access to
education and opportunities for skill formation for
modern economic activities. Gender disparity in
terms of education, health and survival has widened
rather than narrowed. Women’s contribution to
reproductive and productive activities is largely
undervalued and unrecognised. These constrain
the livelihood options for poor women and women
entrepreneurs, reducing their bargaining power
in the market. It is apparent that the economy can
draw immense benefits if this innate skill can be
suitably harnessed and mobilised, leading to the
empowerment of women.
In this regard, the following recommendations
were stressed:
(a) The invisible force of women power must be
made more visible through deliberate measures
and actions that purposely target and empower
women to participate at international and
national levels of public policymaking as well as
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among stakeholders (entrepreneurs, civil society
and academia) within countries to maximise
potential gains.
(b) Harnessing the power of women for trade,
growth and development in the globalisation
matrix is both a top-down and bottom-up
process. It is the responsibility of all people
(men and women), at all levels (Government and
private sector, including women entrepreneurs,
civil society, academia), among women’s groups
such as women’s cooperatives (which can have
multiplier effects), and in different economic
sectors to engender development. From the
top down, there is the introduction of gendersensitive aspects into the foreign trade policy by
the policymakers at the top as indicated by India.
From the bottom-up process, some innovations
include (a) new business models such as cluster
development for small enterprises like herbal
and medicinal plants, wherein women in the
workforce are significant, or incubation services
that provide full support for the development
of new small industries; (b) supporting the
creation of association of women entrepreneurs
and their activities; (c) introducing changes to
representation in business associations, such
as cooperatives or producer networks, to allow
women’s or participation of both men and
women;
(c) Given long-standing prejudices against women,
there is a need for women to proactively
pursue gender empowerment. They need
to persevere in gender sensitisation at all
levels, create networks to promote common
interests, be bold and courageous in initiating
new activities and adapting to changing
technologies, and be ahead of the curve in
terms of vision. For women entrepreneurs to be
successful, they need (a) good ideas to create
business; (b) steadfast in achieving the goal; (c)
take calculated risks; and (d) the support of the
family, especially the men.
(d) It is also important to continue to investigate
and establish the details of the association
between trade performance and women’s
empowerment through empirical research and
in-depth analysis, both ex-ante and ex-post. To
be accurate and objective, sex-disaggregated
data collection and surveys should encompass
the widest possible coverage of issues and
different social and economic groups of women
(including girls). Such insights or gender profiles
of relevant areas will help to clarify the extent
of the association between trade and women,
and help identify policies and actions to
strengthen women’s participation in trade and
development.
(e) Gender-sensitive trade analyses should be
widely disseminated in various forms, via
various media outlets (radio, Internet, television
and newspapers), including in local languages,
to promote wider appreciation in society,
including at the grassroots level, of the role and
contribution of women.
3. Gender-sensitive trade policy
One of the many instruments for tackling,
managing, improving and ultimately eliminating
gender disparity in economic spheres, covert or
overt, is through gender-sensitive trade policy.
Trade policies are neither gender neutral nor
gender blind—they are not adequately sensitised to
purposely enhance gains for women. Trade policies
and measures impact on gender, and thus can be
adapted to foster women’s empowerment as part
of the strategy to strengthen integration into the
international trading system and make globalisation
more inclusive, and with a pro-poor impact.
Women’s contribution to trade must be
recognised and harnessed by Government, bearing
in mind that women are not a homogenous
group—they work in the informal sector, the formal
sector, in entrepreneurial positions, etc. Also, the
cultural and socio-economic context in which trade
policy is being formulated should be taken into
consideration. Thus, policy prescriptions have to be
adapted to the different needs of different groups
of women, and constructed within the historical,
political and cultural context.
To this end, the following recommendations
were made:
(a) Political will must be employed to ensure that
women and women’s groups are given a voice
in the formulation and implementation of trade
policies and strategies. Proactive steps can
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be taken for consulting women and women’s
groups (women’s networks and entrepreneurial
groups), in a systematic and structured manner,
while formulating trade policies or finalising
negotiating positions to integrate the gender
dimension. Strengthening of partnerships
between public, private and civil society in the
development of trade with attention to gender
can help. Such consultations could inform
Government of gender-sensitive sectors in
which trade liberalisation could be expedited,
delayed or exempted, such as in the definition of
sensitive product lists or carving out of services
sectors. A gender-sensitive list of products and
sectors could be developed to inform for trade
negotiators and influence their positions in
liberalisation negotiations.
(b) Effective gender-sensitive actions must be taken
into consideration by devising trade policy
measures such as tariffs and export and import
taxes. For example, tariffs on intermediate
inputs into productive sectors with high female
employment should be reduced. The structural
factors pertaining to productive sectors and
women’s participation should be carefully
assessed so as to propose and introduce trade
policies and measures that can effectively
promote women’s participation in trade.
(c) Export-oriented sectors with high female
employment should be encouraged and
supported by the Government so as to strengthen
opportunities for gender empowerment through
these sectors. This means seeking to grow
exports in these sectors, such as fisheries. Efforts
are needed to build up production and increase
value added. Women entrepreneurs should
also be supported to enhance their businesses.
It makes good sense to encourage women to
build their business. Inherent doubts about the
credibility of women business people must be
addressed and removed.
(d) India will launch a new Foreign Trade Policy in
April 2008, which will contain specific women’s
empowerment aspects for encouraging
women engaged in trade. This is a novel and
welcome development. Establishment and
support for a National Council of Women
Entrepreneurs in India will be an important
aspect of the implementation of this policy.
Effective monitoring of implementation of
the policy generally—as well as the gendersensitive aspect—will be necessary to assess
progress made. This policy approach for export
development with attention to gender could be
considered and replicated by other developing
countries, with necessary adaptation to local
conditions.
(e) Mainstreaming gender into trade policy should
be a gradual process with the participation and
support of all, women and men alike. Otherwise,
too much emphasis on gender issues can result
in a backlash from men, policymakers and
trade negotiators, and thus lead effectively to a
crowding out of gender issues.
4. Integrated approach to gender
mainstreaming
Trade and gender mainstreaming at the national
and international levels is possible only when gender
sensitisation in trade policy is complemented by
sensitisation of and holistic efforts in all policy
interventions, and not just trade. Trade policy and
women’s empowerment must be situated within
wider national development strategies. Such
supportive policies are needed in both central and
state Governments.
There is need, for example, for labour legislation
and enforcement mechanisms to be developed on
wage disparity and decent (supportive) working
conditions for women. Sector-specific legislation
should be introduced and enforced in terms of
working conditions, wages, social security or safety
nets, keeping in mind the sectoral imperatives.
Safety and childcare provisions should be
introduced in export-oriented sectors. Equal pay
legislation should be introduced and applicable
to national and foreign service suppliers, including
covering benefits for part-time as well as full-time
workers. Supporting women to get organised, and
have strong representation, such as through unions,
is key in achieving better working conditions. There
is need to balance labour rights and export-led
growth strategy for workers, and the majority of
women.
Social protection clauses (safety nets) to
assist women workers adversely affected by trade
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liberalisation (such as through job losses) could be
introduced. Existing examples such as in Pakistan or
Bangladesh, with regard to the ready-made garment
sector could be considered. Women’s education is
particularly pertinent to securing better benefits
from trade liberalisation. Access to education must
be provided as a crucial aspect of any attempt to
empower women. Continued emphasis on women’s
education is important in the long term. Skills
development of women through training and retraining of women is necessary, especially in those
sectors that are declining, so that women can find
new jobs or seek better remuneration.
Support to women entrepreneurs should be
strengthened, as they are mostly self-motivated and
can be effective agents of change for many women.
Financial opportunities for women, such as credit
facilities, need to be created to enable women,
especially entrepreneurs, to engage in trading
activities. Information on market opportunities need
to be made more easily available to women to enable
them to get a better deal (price) for their production.
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with
women workers or entrepreneurs must be provided
more support to be competitive in national and
international markets. Investment and industrial
policies, including entrepreneurial development,
should emphasise women’s empowerment. Special
tax incentives should be extended to women-owned
enterprises for encouraging exports. Building of
trade-related infrastructure—including rural areas
and rural markets—to encourage more women
participation in trade is needed.
5. Gender sensitisation in international
trade agreements and arrangements
Gender sensitisation must also be taken into
serious consideration at the international level
so that appropriate support measures can be
provided to increase opportunities for integrating
the gender dimension into trade. International
trade agreements should also provide special
consideration for gender-sensitive sectors, so as
to strengthen opportunities for further expansion
of exports in these sectors and thus promote
women’s empowerment.
In this regard, the following recommendations
were advanced:
(a) WTO agreements, the African, Caribbean
and Pacific Group of States–European Union
economic partnership agreements, and bilateral
and regional free trade agreements, must feature
gender-sensitive aspects. Necessary policy space
could be provided to developing countries in
trade agreements to provide specific support
to women-oriented sectors. Trade liberalisation
should be paced in a way that more vulnerable
sectors are liberalised slowly, or excluded from
liberalisation commitments, keeping in mind the
possible fallouts for women workers employed
in these sectors. The focus of such agreements
should be on development as the end objective,
not trade per se, and in this regard to promote
gender empowerment.
(b) A gender criteria should be introduced in
international trade agreements allowing and
promoting positive measures under Aid for
Trade, development support, investment, and/
or mitigating and accompanying stipulations
that are designed in a way that explicitly
addresses gender-specific measures. These
include, for example, safety nets, provisions that
promote women entrepreneurs, regulations
that encourage supply capacity-building, and
control over productive resources.
(c) There is need to reach common understanding
among nations regarding definition of
disproportionate gender impact, gendersensitive sector, etc., and criteria of evaluation.
(d) At the same time, careful attention is needed
to avoid the mandatory integration of core
labour standards into trade agreements as
these can become sources of non-tariff barriers
to exports. Incentive-based schemes as in some
preferential trading arrangements could be
considered in ensuring job creation with good
labour standards. An example is the Cambodian
experience with the “Better Factories Cambodia”
scheme. Such trade incentive schemes should
be part of a complementary set of policies to
promote productivity and fairness, as well as
ensure monitoring of compliance.
(e) Countries granting trade preferences could
consider deepening the preference in sectors
having significant employment of women in the
exporting country. This would be particularly
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relevant for Generalised System of Preferences
(GSP) schemes.
labour, earnings and expenditures should be
more systematically collected.
(f ) Comprehensive gender assessments should be
undertaken as integral parts of trade impact
assessment of outcomes of liberalisation
under the WTO and free trade agreements.
Comprehensive assessment of gender effects
from trade reform is required to deepen the
understanding of gender-specific effects
of particular trade policy, accordingly and
proactively providing for gender-sensitive
negotiating strategies and policies. This should
include country-specific studies of the genderdifferentiated impacts of trade policies as
well as consequences of gender relations and
inequalities for trade performance. In this area
of research, the most pertinent problems relate
to paucity of gender-disaggregated data, lack
of motivation in gender mainstream research
and lack of relevant research expertise. Thus,
gender-disaggregated data on household
(g) Multiple trade negotiations are taking place
simultaneously at the multilateral, regional
and bilateral levels, creating much confusion
for workers and businesses, including those
involving women. There is thus need for
UNCTAD and other international organisations
to continue to build up negotiating capacities of
countries —human, institutional and regulatory–
and facilitate stakeholder consultations so that
the general public becomes aware of intricacies
and implications of trade negotiations. Without
devoted attention to such broad capacity
development issues, the attention to gender
mainstreaming will remain relegated to a
subsidiary issue. The UNCTAD/DFID/India
project approach has proven useful in building
such capacities in India and thus it should be
considered for replication in other countries and
other regions, especially Africa.
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Inaugural Address of Ms. Meira Kumar,
Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment
Dr. Supachai, Secretary-General of UNCTAD,
Mr. G.K. Pillai, Commerce Secretary,
Ladies and gentlemen,
At the outset, let me compliment UNCTAD
India for organising this international conference
on ‘Moving Towards Gender Sensitisation of Trade
Policy’. The topic is relevant, as it has the potential
to link international trade with empowerment of
women, not only in India but the world over. Women,
as a group, are economically more disadvantaged
than men, especially in developing countries,
where women constitute the economically poorest
segment with estimates ranging anywhere between
60 to 70 percent.
In India, women employment is the highest in
the traditional low-wage activities like agriculture,
forestry and fishing. Occupational distribution of
women workforce indicates the gender segregation
of tasks. The underlying reality of low levels of
education and skill formation among the female
workers confines them mostly to low paid and
unskilled jobs compared to their male counterparts.
While agriculture still accounts for the largest chunk
of women workers in rural areas, in urban areas,
tertiary sector accounts for more than half of the
women workers.
In agriculture, the backbreaking work of
weeding, usually reserved for women, has the
lowest wage rate. In the informal sector, where most
women are employed and where little effective
monitoring and control exist, women are being
paid lower wages than men. In the organised sector,
where equal remuneration laws are more directly
enforceable, pure wage discrimination does not
exist. However, differential levels in education imply
that women are usually less skilled than men. Thus,
women generally attain only lower level jobs even
within the organised sector.
In service sector, women’s share of employment
exceeds that of men. However, women are more
likely to earn less than men for the same type of
work, even in traditionally female occupations.
Women are still concentrated in sectors that are
traditionally associated with their gender roles,
particularly in community, social and personal
services, whereas men dominate the better-paid
jobs in financial and business services and real
estate. The gender segregation of occupations is
changing, but only slowly. Female stereotypes,
such as caring, docile care-giver and homebased worker, are being reinforced and may be
perpetuated into the next generation if market
opportunities continue to be restricted for women.
Segmentation trends do not show any significant
signs of decline with women’s share increasing
in women oriented industries such as personal
services and categories such as maids, teachers,
health, sales workers, and clerical workers. Thus
at the aggregate level there are no clear signs of
increasing economic empowerment of women.
However, even in this context, there are sectors,
which have shown signs of positive changes. In
this background the IT and ITES sector, finance and
insurance, health and hospitality sector assume
special significance. The most important factors
influencing gain from exports is the educational
and skill attainment of women. It requires major
domestic investment in favour of women. It
requires active participation of state and intergovernmental agencies.
Studies point towards the fact that trade
liberalisation has increased the proportion of women
in the labour force in many countries. For many
women, more integrated markets have resulted in
an improvement in their economic and social status.
New jobs in export sectors have been filled by
new entrants in the formal economy. For instance,
majority of women workers in chikan embroidery
and tufted carpets in India has got employment in
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5 years due to increase in exports. The tufted carpet
export has increased by 55.5 percent during 1995–
2005, on an average rate of 26 percent per annum.
In Bangladesh, growth in the ready-made clothing
industry has created close to two million jobs in
the formal economy, over three-quarters of them
filled by women. Their increased employment has
changed the economic status of women and has
reportedly enhanced women’s social status, their
control of income, and their decision-making power
in the family.
Trade in women-oriented export sectors
has enabled women to use their potential in the
labour market, and to a certain extent, achieve
economic independence. In developing and least
developing countries, any incremental employment
opportunities, whether regular or casual, has
benefited women. Income generated from
increased employment opportunities in growing
export oriented sectors lead to greater economic
empowerment of women. However, this has yet
to result in a meaningful social empowerment
of women, equitable distribution of household
responsibilities, equal pay for work of equal value, and
gender balance across all occupations. The effects of
trade liberalisation may vary across regions of each
country. It is particularly true in a vast country like
India which is full of diversities, differential regional
levels of development and varied socio-cultural
settings.
While women represent 48% of total population
in India, they constitute only 31% of the employment
market. Of this proportion, only 4.06 per cent of the
women were employed in the organised sector while
the remaining 95.93 per cent were employed in the
unorganised sector. Therefore, the ratio of women
in the workforce is not commensurate with their
share in the population. However, the female work
participation rate has increased overall from 19.7% in
1981 to 25.7% in 2001. Though this trend is upward,
the female work participation rate is still around
50% lower than the male participation rate. Studies
in this context have revealed that participation of
women in rural areas is much higher than in urban
areas- an indicator of the high absorptive capacity
of the agriculture and allied sectors.
The dimensions of gender inequality which
constrain developing country exports include
command and control over income and assets,
including in land and credit. Other dimensions of
gender inequality, most notably those related to
wage gaps and working conditions, have been
found to contribute to growth positively in semiindustrialised export-oriented countries. In these
instances, export successes and growth have come
at the expense of gender inequality, while this may
be surely beneficial for export earnings in the short
run, it is not necessarily beneficial for women in the
long-term.
There is a growing evidence suggesting that
men and women experience the impacts of trade
policies differently. Research also indicates that
in certain cases women employment and wages
have increased in the period of trade liberalisation.
In the Indian context, this is supported by the comovement in tea, coffee and rubber exports and
employment in recent decades. Further, gender
specific employment effect reveals that women have
borne the major brunt of the fall in employment in
case of decline of exports. Women also get major
benefits in case of export surges. National trade
policy formulation needs to be cognizant of these
findings for advancing and protecting the interests
of women in gender intensive sectors in the
international trade regime.
Gender-awareness in trade policy formulation
requires a deeper and contextualised understanding
of the interactions between gender inequalities,
class-based inequalities and poverty, on the one
hand, and trade policies and trade performance,
on the other. County-specific studies of the genderdifferentiated impacts of trade policies as well
as country-specific studies on the ways in which
gender relations and inequalities affect trade
performance are needed. Creative solutions need
to be explored whereby importing countries can
accord concessional access to imports from those
sectors which predominantly employ women.
Empowerment is a multi-faceted, multidimensional and multi-layered concept. Women’s
empowerment is a process in which women gain
greater share of control over resources—material,
human and intellectual—and access to money
and control over decision-making in the home,
community, society and nation, and gain `power’.
Let us work hand in hand for ensuring that
trade policy outcomes lead to empowerment of
women.
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Statement by Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi,
Secretary-General of UNCTAD
“The impact of trade and globalisation on gender in India”
Excellency, Ms. Meira Kumar, Minister for Social
Justice and Empowerment,
Mr. G.K. Pillai, Commerce Secretary, Government
of India,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Let me warmly welcome you to this conference
and say how pleased I am to participate in it. It deals
with a subject of trade that I strongly support. The
universal goal of gender equality is enshrined in
the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights. It is also a key goal of
the Millennium Development Goals.
Impact of trade liberalisation on gender
One of the issues that is only beginning to
receive international attention is the impact of trade
liberalisation and globalisation on gender. Empirical
evidence on the link between trade liberalisation
and gender is scant. Nevertheless, we do know
that trade has gender-related effects. This is not
surprising given that women participate in various
levels of production and trade whether locally or
internationally.
Available empirical evidence suggests a direct
link between exports and female employment.
This is especially visible in the labour-intensive
manufacturing sector, where the proportion of
women workers tends to be comparatively large.
For example, increased exports were associated
with increased female employment in such countries
as Mauritius, Tunisia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Malaysia,
and the ‘East Asian Tigers’. Moreover, researchers
found that industrialisation in the newly industrialised
economies of Taiwan Province of China, Hong Kong
China, South Korea, and Singapore is as much femaleled as it is export-led.
Conversely, in countries with low-levels of
trade integration and a dominance of commodityproduction, the impact of trade on women in
the labour market appears less positive. This, for
example, is the case in several countries in subSaharan Africa.
Thus, the association between trade and women
empowerment can be positive. But it cannot be
assumed to be either automatic or generalised.
Establishing the details of this association requires
in-depth analysis and research.
UNCTAD’s contribution to trade and gender
This international seminar is a contribution
by UNCTAD towards a more in-depth assessment
of the linkages between trade, globalisation
and gender empowerment so that there can
be realisation of mutually beneficial gains. It is
consistent with our mission to foster international
consensus and build national capacities to ensure
that there is trade expansion which leads to
growth and development for all, and especially
the vulnerable and disadvantage groups like
women.
Our contribution in the era of globalisation in the
next years will be charted out by our member States
at the twelfth session of UNCTAD in Accra, Ghana
from 20–25 next April 2008. The outcome of this
seminar can make a useful input to this conference
on trade, gender and development.
Some findings on trade and gender linkages
in India
This seminar will discuss, among others, a
number of findings that emerged from a new
empirical study by the UNCTAD/DFID/India Project
in collaboration with UNDP, on the impact of trade
and globalisation on gender in India.
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I would like to highlight a few of them:
First, women are significant stakeholders in the
process of trade growth and development. This
must be recognised and harnessed by Government
to make globalisation more inclusive with pro-poor
impact. It must also be taken into consideration
seriously at the international level so that appropriate
support measures can be provided to increase
opportunities for integrating the gender dimension
into trade more beneficially.
Second, both employment and wages of women
have increased in export-oriented sectors that have
experienced dynamic export growth. This is evident
for example in the handicraft sector, the wearing
apparel sector, the fisheries sector and the IT sector.
In contrast in the other less export-oriented sectors,
earnings of women have stagnated.
Third, the positive effect of trade expansion
on women’s employment and wages has, in
turn, improved intra-household dynamics and
generated positive development spillovers.
69% of respondents surveyed in the study
attributed an increase in their social status to the
improvement in their economic status owing to
their involvement in expanding export sectors.
So wherever female employment opportunities
have improved, women became increasingly
empowered.
Furthermore, previous research shows that
women tend to spend a greater proportion of
their income than men on education and health,
particularly for their children.
Fourth, if trade can be a positive force for
women’s empowerment, it can have adverse effects.
Tea and coffee production—which are dominated
by plantation production and are labour intensive—
for example, experienced a sharp fall in exports due
to other competitive producers in the international
market. As a direct result, there was a strong drop
in women employment in the plantations. This
provides insights into measures needed to cater to
women workers that become unemployed due to
trade liberalisation.
Fifth, female workers continue to earn about
30% less than male workers irrespective of the
industry, region or location. Another worrying
trend is that of an increasing casualisation of labour,
which particularly affects women. Export-related
trade growth often leads to an increase in demand
for casual workers, a high percentage of them being
women. Women’s work is often insecure, temporary
or part-time, with little protection and few fringe
benefits. The low-levels of education and skill
formation among the female workers confine them
mostly to low paid, unskilled jobs.
Overall therefore, the situation is yet to achieve
a notable improvement in the real empowerment
for women, equitable distribution of household
responsibilities, equal pay for work of equal value
and gender balance across occupations.
Policy implications regarding gender
empowerment in trade
So what are the policy implications of these
findings? What can be done to make trade bring
development gains to women, to their families, to
the industries in which they are employed, and to
India?
At the national level, a number of actions could
be considered.
Women’s groups must be consulted to a
greater extent and in a systematic and structured
manner, in the formulation of trade policies or
negotiating positions, so as to integrate the
gender dimension.
Export-oriented sectors with high female
employment should receive particular attention
by the Government. There may also be a case
for international trade agreements to provide
special consideration for such sectors, so as to
strengthen opportunities for further expansion of
exports in these sectors and thus promote gender
empowerment.
Conscious efforts by the central and state
governments are required to consolidate the share
of women in different sub-sectors. It must be realised
that gender issues need to be integrated within the
larger perspective of economic reforms.
Women’s education and supportive work
environment are crucial to reaping better benefits
from trade liberalisation. Highly educated women
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in the services sectors, for example, find new
employment and received relatively higher wages.
For women in those sectors that face declining
exports, re-training to gain new skills in dynamically
growing export sectors will be important for them
to find new employment.
and accordingly gender sensitive negotiating
strategies could be evolved.
At the international level, several development
dialogue and cooperation initiatives can provide
important stimulus to promoting trade growth with
a gender dimension.
Conclusion
For example, countries granting trade preferences
could consider deepening these preferences in
sectors that employ a high proportion of women
in the exporting country. This would be particularly
relevant for GSP schemes.
Countries should consider gender as an integral
part of Trade Impact Assessment of FTAs/WTO trade
outcomes. This would deepen the understanding of
gender specific effects of particularly trade policy
More broadly, there is a need for more research
on the linkages between trade performance and
gender empowerment.
In conclusion, please allow me to thank the
Government of India, especially the Ministry of
Commerce and Industry for its support to UNCTAD
and the UNCTAD/DFID/India project. I also wish to
thank DFID for its valuable support to the project and
its emphasis on pro-poor development processes,
which is consistent with UNCTAD’s development
mission. This partnership has over the years borne
important benefits for all partners and we hope it
will continue in the years ahead. I also wish to thank
UNDP for the collaboration in this initiative.
Thank you very much.
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Statement by Mr. G. K. Pillai,
Commerce Secretary, Government of India
Honourable Minister for Social Justice,
Secretary-General UNCTAD,
Distinguished guests on the dais,
Dear friends,
As part of globalisation, there’s always a great
fear of a loss of jobs. On one side, we need to protect
our jobs. At the same time, the opportunities
outside are so huge that we need to both empower
and provide the necessary skills for the workforce in
India, especially women to tackle these challenges. I
must congratulate UNCTAD not only for the studies
they have made but also for the support that they
have provided to the Government of India in terms
of empowering the stakeholders and making
knowledge and information available right down to
the grass-root level.
One may wonder how trade affects women. On
one side, if Kanjeevaram sarees are imported from
China and don’t have Geographical Indication to
protect the livelihood of women who produce them,
they could be out of work. You have to find new
markets, niche markets to protect their product. If
you look broadly across the broad spectrum of most
of the sectors whose trade takes place, whether its
IT, handloom, agriculture, electric hardware, fisheries
and so on, you’ll find that the majority of the people
working in most of these sectors, including textiles,
are women.
Now international trade in some sense helps to
ensure that these women are provided with greater
facilities—not just in terms of their minimum wages
but also in terms of provision of facilities like separate
toilets and crèches. Many times when some of these
conditions are imposed by the importer, there is
tremendous resistance. But in many developed
countries, the consumer revolution is so strong that
a product will not sell if it is found that the factories
producing these products exploit women, employ
child labour or don’t provide minimum wages.
Therefore, companies that import products from us
insist that these standards are met. In fact, even if we
don’t have labor laws specifying these standards, the
exporter understands that the importers demands
in terms of the production conditions need to be
met. In many cases, many of the exporting factories
have superior facilities, far above the requirements
as set by labour standards. This is something they
can afford to do, because of the value that they get
by virtue of exporting.
In so far as the Foreign Trade policy is concerned,
in the government, we have always looked at
women as a great resource. But in the foreign trade
policies that have been formulated over the years,
there has been no specific mention of gender or
gender sensitivity. This year, as a result of UNCTAD’s
work as well as the efforts of the Commonwealth
Secretariat, we are looking at number of options
before us. I’m hopeful that when the Foreign Trade
policy is announced by the end of the first week of
April, you will find for the first time, specific gender
issues being tackled in terms of incentives for
women entrepreneurs and in terms of incentives for
exporters who would provide certain basic facilities
that would enhance the capability of their women
workers or even their women entrepreneurs. This is
something we hope we’ll be able to do. Let me once
again wish this function a grand success.
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Statement by Abhijit Das,
Deputy Project Coordinator and Officer in
Charge, UNCTAD India Programme
Hon’ble Ms. Meira Kumar, Minister for Social
Justice and Empowerment,
Dr. Supachai, Secretary-General of UNCTAD,
Mr. G. K. Pillai Commerce Secretary,
Ms. Lakshmi Puri Acting DSG of UNCTAD and
Director DITC,
Mr. Chris Murgatroyd of DFID India,
Ms. Nafisa Ali and Ms. Nandita Das,
Participants,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
On behalf of UNCTAD-Commerce Ministry-DFID
project on Strategies and Preparedness for Trade
and Globalisation in India, I extend a warm welcome
to all of you.
Let me take this opportunity to highlight
some of the activities of UNCTAD-India project. A
project that seeks to enhance the understanding
of the development dimension of key trade issues,
emphasising pro-poor approaches to trade and
globalisation.
With the broad objective of integrating
development concerns into the trade policy
formulation, the project has provided technical
inputs to the Department of Commerce through
well grounded and extensively peer reviewed
analytical research on a diverse range of issues.
These include trade facilitation, anti-dumping,
industrial subsidies, tariffs, green box subsidies in
agriculture, government procurement. It is a matter
of considerable satisfaction for the project that most
of its analytical work have helped in the formulation
of concrete negotiating proposals from India in
Doha Round. In all humility let me state that some
of the analytical work has attracted international
attention and acclaim.
The project has also put into place a mechanism
for reaching out to diverse range of stakeholders
and providing them a platform for articulating their
interests and concerns in the context of bilateral
and multilateral trade negotiations. As many of you
may be aware, negative list refers to those products
which are excluded from tariff elimination between
FTA partners. Economic analysis by the project,
buttressed with stakeholder feedback, has enabled
it to recommend the negative list to the DOC in
the context of bilateral negotiations such as Indo
ASEAN and Indo EU negotiations. This important
initiative demonstrates that trade liberalisation and
protecting vulnerable sectors can proceed hand in
hand.
The second objective of the project is to
improve preparedness of the stakeholders to benefit
from trade and globalisation as well as to adopt
appropriate adjustment strategies. To achieve this
objective the project has established an extensive
network of partners, created databases, softwares
and web portals as a means of outreach as well
as for sourcing information. These initiatives have
assisted stakeholders in taking a more informed
and balanced view of how globalisation affects
their business.
In its endeavour to assist resource-poor artisans
and farmers to seek legal protection of their unique
products, the project is facilitating GI registration
of about 10 products in poorer regions of India.
Banarasi Sarees and brocades, Lucknow Chikan
work, Orissa Applique craft and Shahi Litchi of
Muzaffarpur are some of the products in which we
are facilitating GI registration. GI registration would
prevent producers from other regions free-riding on
the reputation of unique traditional products. We
view this as an enduring contribution of the project
in preserving traditional products, enhancing
their visibility and leveraging the GI protection for
harnessing commercial gains for the artisans and
farmers. Further details on this initiative have been
provided in the flyer in your folders.
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In its various initiatives the project has worked
closely with state governments and exploring
suitable mechanisms for facilitating exports of
certain products which provide livelihood to poor
farmers and artisans.
the 3 days. First, compilation and consolidation of
evidence on trade-gender-development linkage.
Second, identifying key policy interventions,
including trade policies, that may empower women
and stimulate trade in turn.
Coming to today’s conference. Trade benefits
all—men and women. But within the same country,
for various reasons, benefits are distributed
differently between men and women. The challenge
is to understand the different channels through
which trade, gender and development interact; and
derive lessons for formulating suitable policies which
could make trade a potent instrument of gender
empowerment. We have a galaxy of experts who
would deliberate on these issues. We are hopeful
of two broad outcomes from the deliberations of
In conclusion, let me mention that in the
Indian context there is scant quantitative work on
trade-gender-development linkage. The studies
supported by the project are initial attempts at
enhancing our understanding and meeting the
challenges mentioned earlier. We hope that this
International Conference will be a catalyst to kick
start the process of more empirical analytical work
focused on India.
Thank You.
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Statement by Mr. Chris Murgatroyd,
Head Resources and Senior Governance
Advisor, DFID India
Honorable Minister,
Secretary-General,
Commerce Secretary,
Ladies and gentlemen,
Thanks very much for giving me the opportunity
of addressing you this morning. Susanna Moorehead,
heading DFID India, sends her regrets, but I’m
pleased that I’ve been able to join and provide
the opportunity in two and a half years for all the
stakeholders to be represented together.
DFID has had a close association with UNCTAD
and the Ministry for a number of years and we are
very proud of the work, particularly the analytical
work that has been done under the project. I’m
particularly pleased that we’ve got an opportunity
today to link the work that DFID has been very
happy to support on trade with the important issue
of gender. DFID has a commitment in all of our
programs to focus on gender issues and we consider
the social development implications of all of the
interventions that we’ve been asked to support in
each of the countries that we work in. We assess
those impacts and we particularly think about the
implications for women and girls.
We know that when we talk about the focus
on eradicating poverty, most of those who live in
poverty are women. And whilst we know that those
aspects of poverty play out differently in different
societies, there are common features across the
world. We’re particularly concerned to ensure that
all of the work has a mainstreaming of gender,
but also that we have an opportunity to engage
in specific interventions. We know, for example,
that in South Asia, the statistics around maternal
mortality, infant mortality; particularly the impact
of a lack of access to basic opportunities for girls,
has a distorting impact on growth. Inviting women
and girls into economic empowerment and into the
opportunities that work can generate, significantly
enhances the impact on growth.
We know for example, that by responding to
requests for support to assist with health services,
particularly access to institutional deliveries
through government centrally sponsored schemes,
access to educational opportunities again through
the government’s flagship support through the
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan, the DFID is in a position
to assist with some of these linkages to key gender
indicators, particularly identifying the data/
disaggregating data sources so that over time, in
partnership, we can ensure that our support has
maximum impact. We’re particularly pleased to be
able to support initiatives like the Mahila Samakhya
Program, again focusing specifically on women’s
education and the empowerment opportunities
that access to educational opportunities can bring.
So a strong theme in all of our partnerships—
through government partnerships, through
other partners in India, and in all our partners
in other countries—is to ensure that economic
opportunities for women deliver benefits across
societies through the income and other advances
that they would bring.
So whilst we are pleased to focus on our support
through UNCTAD and through the programs that
we’re invited to support, we’re particularly pleased
when we have the opportunity to link the two. Our
partnership with UNCTAD which has generated
some of the promotional material that you’ll see
very shortly, as I understand, is a particular pleasure
for us.
So again, thank you for inviting DFID to be a part
of this morning’s inauguration. I wish you all the very
best for the next three days, and I hope for a very
successful outcome for this workshop.
Thank you.
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Statement by Ms. Nandita Das,
Film Actress and Director
Dear friends,
I am not at all an authority on the subject that is
going to be discussed and all of you are. The reason
one tries to come for such conferences is to try and
reaffirm one’s faith and not to be cynical about
life—that good things are being done, that people
are thinking and that all of us in some way are trying
to do our little bit to build a better world.
Always around the 8th of March there are
activities about women. I used to be very cynical
about then and would say “Oh my God, no more of
this tokenism.” But as we grow older and we realise
there is no room for cynicism. One feels that at least
tokenism, at least in March and end of February until
it fades away, we are going to focus on issues that
are very important. Gender sensitivity in every field
is extremely important. It should be one of the most
normal things, but as most normal things don’t
happen, we have to make an extra effort towards
doing those things.
I remember when I did my Masters in Social Work,
I used to be associated with many NGOs that worked
at the grassroot level. I used to scorn at all these
conferences—I used to wonder whether any of the
discussions in air-conditioned rooms ever benefited
those who were being talked about. Again, I’m no
more cynical, I think that everything is needed-all
this brainstorming, all these policy makers who
benefit from grassroot level experiences and the
grassroot level workers are indeed benefited from
the policies that are made.
As we are moving towards a more and more
complex world, the problems are also getting more
complex and simple solutions are hard to find. The
word globalisation is loved and hated by different
sectors where people are probably working towards
the same goal. I say ‘probably’ because the definition
of development can be interpreted differently. While
there are some who think that globalisation is the
best thing that has happened to the world, there
are others who think that globalisation is the ruin
for developing countries or those countries where
disparities are growing because of it. So I am sure a
very stimulating discussion is going to happen in the
next three days. Unfortunately, I’m not going to be
part of it but I really look forward to seeing Ansuya’s
and Ajay’s film which I am sure will give important
insights.
I hope to meet you all as well.
Thank you.
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Statement by Ms. Nafisa Ali,
Film Actress, Social Activist and Chairperson
of the Children’s Film Society
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and my
distinguished guests on the dais,
I think the important thing about a documentary or
the moving pictures is that it explains, reaches out and
has a far more important impact on the mind than just
talking. I’ve realised that a documentary is something
you can’t just ignore. It’s very good that we’re at this
policy and decision making stage, but you eventually
have to take the information to the masses.
Therefore, the decision that you make must be
brought forward at the grassroot level, awareness
should be created for women in general. In India,
women need to be empowered- they deserve the
income and the respect that the male is getting.
Even though the male feels he is working harder, I
feel that women work much harder.
It’s important that the world looks at the
seriousness of the creativity of Indian artisans and
crafts. And though we would like to see products
from all over the world in the form of imports,
its important that our unique products are also
protected by means of geographic indicators.
Another important thing is that when the
international community comes here they specify
the importance of making access to simple facilities
such as toilets which is helpful. I was just talking
to the SEWA representative from Gujarat in this
conference and she told me about their phenomenal
movement in Gujarat where they were trying to
enhance the status of women despite efforts to
crush their initiative by the government. Their work
makes me very proud. Women need to stand tall
and strong while the policy makers need to protect
the secular fabric of our country and ensure that
women get their rightful share in terms of economic
opportunities and social status.
I’m glad that I’ve been a part of this in a small
way and if you need me further, I’m here. If you could
make a simple documentary in regional languages
and try and air it on Doordarshan the information
could be accessed by most of India’s population.
Thank you and all the best for the programme.
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Conference Programme
International Conference on
“Moving towards Gender Sensitisation of
Trade Policy” 25–27 February, 2008
VIII
Hotel Le Meridien (Napoleon 1), New Delhi
25 February, 2008
Registration: 11:00 hrs–12:15 hours
Inaugural Session: 12:15 hours–13:15 hours

Chief Guest: Hon’ble Mrs. Meira Kumar, Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment,
Government of India

Guest of Honour: Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi , Secretary-General of UNCTAD

Special Guest: Mr. G.K.Pillai, Commerce Secretary, Government of India

Celebrity Guests:

Ms. Nandita Das, Actress & Director and

Ms. Nafisa Ali, Chairperson, Children’s Film Society of India

Address by Mr. Chris Murgatroyd, Head Resources and Senior Governance Advisor,
DFID India

Address by Mr. Abhijit Das, Deputy Project Coordinator and Officer in Charge
UNCTAD India Programme
Lunch: 13:15 hrs–14:00 hours
14:00 hrs–15:30 hrs
Session 1—Gender and International Trade: Opportunities and Concerns
Chair: Mrs. Lakshmi Puri, Acting Deputy Secretary-General of UNCTAD and Director
Division on International Trade and Commodities (DITC), UNCTAD
Presentations by:

Mr. Abhijit Das, Deputy Project Coordinator and Office in Charge, UNCTAD India—
Overview of Studies on Trade and Gender Supported by UNCTAD India

Dr. Shahid Ahmed, UNCTAD India—Trade Openness and Gender Empowerment: An
Assessment

Dr. K.P. Sunny, National Productivity Council, India—Impact of Trade and
Globalisation on Gender in India
Open House Discussion
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Tea Break 15:30 hours–15:45 hours
15:45 hours - 17:00 hours
Session 2—Women in Trade: Journey to Success
Chair: Dr. Kiran Chadha, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Women & Child Development,
Government of India
Presentations by:

Mrs. Rama Devi, ALEAP— Impact of Trade on Women in Business and Suggestions
for Inclusive Growth.

Mrs. Archana Bhatanagar, Mahakaushal Association of Women Entrepreneurs—
Combating Globalisation: My Entrepreneurial Effort and Dissemination through
Association Initiatives for Gender Sensitisation.

Dr. Rajnee Aggarwal, Federation of Indian Women Entrepreneurs—Journey to
Success: My Experience with Globalisations
17:00 hours–18:00 hours
Screening of the Film on Trade and Gender
Film by Mr. Ajay Shetty and Ms. Ansuya Vaidya, SaaReeGaa Productions, New Delhi
KARMAYOGINI: The Indian Woman Worker in the Age of Globalisation
26 February, 2008
10:00 hours–13:00 hours
Session 3—Sector-Specific Gender Dimensions of International Trade: Fisheries,
Handicrafts and Services
Chair: Mr. Anand S. Bhal, Economic Advisor, DFID
Presentations by:

CSR, New Delhi India—Impact of Trade and Globalisation on Gender in India: A Case
Study of Women Workers in the Fisheries Sector

STADD, New Delhi India—Impact of Trade and Globalisation on Women Workers in
the Handicraft Sector: Evidence from the Carpet and Embroidery Sectors
Open House Discussion

Dr. Rashmi Banga, UNCTAD India—Impact of Trade in Services on Gender
Employment in India

Discussant: Ms Jacqueline Maleko, Ministry of Industry and Trade,
United Republic of Tanzania

Ms. Hameda Dedaat, Gender and Economic Reforms in Africa Programme (Part
of TWN), South Africa—The Socio-Economic Impact of Trade Liberalisation and
Employment Loss on Women in the South African Clothing Industry: A Cape Town
Case Study, South Africa

Discussant: Dr. Marzia Fontana, Institute of Development Studies, U.K.
Open House Discussion
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Dr. Indira Hirway, Centre for Development Alternatives, India—Trade and Gender
Inequality in Labour Market: A Case of Textile and Garment Industry in India

Discussant: Dr. Swapna Mukhopadhyay, National Institute of Public Finance and
Policy, India

Ms. Yumiko Yamamoto, UNDP, Asia-Pacific Regional Centre, Sri Lanka—Gendered
Impacts of the Expiry of WTO Agreement on Textiles and Clothing on Developing
Economies in the Asia-Pacific: Assessment and Policies

Discussant: Dr. Selim Raihan, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Open House Discussion
Lunch: 13:00 hours–14:00 hours
14:00 hours–17:00 hours
Session 4—Trade and Gender: Experiences of Other Countries and Regions
Chair: Deborah McGurk, Senior Economic Advisor, DFID
Presentations by:

Selim Raihan, Rabeya Khatoon, M. Jami Husain and Suriya Rahman: Modelling
Gender Impacts of Policy Reforms in Bangladesh: A Study in a Sequential Dynamic
CGE Framework—Presentation by: Dr. Selim Raihan, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Discussant: Dr Mohammad A. Razzaque, Commonwealth Secretariat, U.K

Günseli Berik and Yana van der Meulen Rodgers: The Debate on Labor Standards and
International Trade: Lessons from Cambodia and Bangladesh, Presentation by: Dr.
Günseli Berik, University of Utah, Utah, USA

Discussant: Dr. Karin Ulmer, APRODEV, Belgium

Dr. Marzia Fontana, Institute of Development Studies, UK—The gender effects of trade in
developing countries: A review of recent evidence
Open House Discussion

Dr. Lanyan Chen, Tianjin Normal University Tianjin China—Gender Sensitisation of
Trade Policies: Newborn Research in China

Discussant: Prof. Shirin Rai, University of Warwick, UK

May Sengendo and Godber Tumushabe: Provision and Access to Market Information
for Female and Male Exporters of Horticulture and Fisheries Sectors in Uganda,
Presentation by: Mrs. Appolonia Mugumbya, EAETDN, Uganda.

Discussant: Ms. Yumiko Yamamoto, UNDP, Asia-Pacific Regional Centre, Sri Lanka

Dr. Yassine Fall, UNIFEM—Trade Liberalisation and Gender Equality: Experiences and
Lessons learned from the Global South

Discussant: Ms. Hameda Dedaat, Gender and Economic Reforms in Africa
Programme(Part of TWN), South Africa
Open House Discussion
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27 February, 2008
10:00 hours–12:00 hours
Session 5—Mainstreaming of Gender in Trade Negotiations: Voices from Policy
Makers and Gender Experts
Chair: Mr. Bonapas Onguglo, Chief, Office of the Director, DITC, UNCTAD
Presentations by:

Prof. Shirin Rai and Prof. Catherine Hoskyns, University of Warwick, UK: Gender
Expert Group on Trade: Lessons from the UK, Presentation by: Prof. Shirin Rai
University of Warwick, UK

Dr. Karin Ulmer, APRODEV, Association of World Council of Churches Related
Development Organisations in Europe, Brussels, Belgium—EU Trade Policies: The
Blueprint

Ms. Rezani Aziz, Women’s Chamber of Industry & Commerce, Sri Lanka—
Mainstreaming of Gender in Trade Negotiations: Sri Lankan Perspective

Dr. Safdar Sohail, D.G. Foreign Trade Institute of Pakistan—Gender Sensitisation in
Pakistan’s Trade Policy

Mr. Md. Osman Goni Talukder, Ministry of Women and Children Affairs Bangladesh—
Mainstreaming of Gender in Trade Negotiations: Experience of RMG Sector in
Bangladesh
Open House Discussion
12:00 hours–13:00 hours
Session 6: Concluding Session

Rapporteur’s Report

Concluding Remarks by Mr. Bonapas Onguglo, Chief, Office of the Director, DITC,
UNCTAD
Lunch: 13:00 hours–14:00 hours
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List of Participants
S.No. Name
Organisation
Contacts
1.
A.K. Gupta
Advisor, APEDA
3rd Floor, NCUI Building,
3 Siri Institutional Area, August Kranti
Marg, New Delhi – 110016
Ph: 26514525
Direct: 26513204, 26534191
Fax: 26526187
E-mail: advisorwto@apeda.com
2.
Abhijit Das
Deputy Project Coordinator &
Officer in Charge
UNCTAD India Project
Room 421, The Taj Ambassador Hotel,
2, Sujan Singh Park,
New Delhi – 110003
Ph: 24635036/54/55
Fax: 24635000
E-mail: abhijitdas@unctadindia.org
3.
Adhikari Singh
Editor/Bureau Chief, Trade
Information Service
F-1, Amrapali, A-132, Dilshad Colony,
Delhi – 110095
Ph: 22092012
Mobile: 9312984457
4.
Alexander S. Shust
Head of Department
for Political & Economic
Research, Academy of Public
Administration under the
Aegis of the President of the
Republic of Belarus
17, Moskovskaya Str. Minsk,
Belarus – 220007
Tel: 375-172286321
E-mail: minskcity@gmail.com
5.
Alice Sebastian
Ph D Fellow
Centre for Development Studies
Prasanth Nagar, Road, Ullor,
Thiruvananthapuram – 695 011
Ph: 0471 2448881-4
Fax: 0471 2447137
E-mail: alice@cds.ac.in
6.
Amrit Kallar
Chairperson Seminars &
Workshops, MAWE
Haylide Chemicals,
ISO 9001:2000 Certified,
433/2 Napier Town,
Jabalpur – 482001
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S.No. Name
Organisation
Contacts
7.
Anand S. Bhal
Economic Adviser, DFID
DFID India
British High Commission,
B-28, Tara Crescent,
Qutab Institutional Area,
New Delhi – 110016
Tel: 42793352, 26529123 Ext : 3352
Fax: 26529296
E-mail: as-bhal@dfid.gov.uk
8.
Andrew Allimad
UNECA
Box – 3005
Addi Ababa
Ethiopia
E-mail: allimadi@un.org
9.
Anita Pauline Dey
Ex Secretary Association of
Schools for ISC (U.P.)
Branch Exceutive Member
Indo-American Chamber of
Commerce
W. H. Smith Memorial School
D. 59/108, Sigra,
Varanasi – 221010, Uttar Pradesh
Ph: 0542-2221439
E-mail: anitapsodhi_de@msn.com
10.
Anita Sodhi De
Committee Member,
Indo-American Chamber of
Commerce, U P Branch
W. H. Smith Memorial School
Sigra,
Varanasi,
Mobile: 09415226655
E-mail: anitapsodhi_de@msn.com,
pradip_de@rediffmail.com
11.
Anjana Chellani
International Labour
Organisation
55, Lodhi Estate,
New Delhi – 110003
Ph: 24602101 extn 210
E-mail: anjana@ilodel.org.in
12.
Anushree Sinha
NCEAR
Parisila Bhawan,
11, Indraprastha Estate,
New Delhi – 110002
Ph: (91-11) 23379861
/2 /3 /5 /6 /8, 23379857
Fax: (91-11) 2337-0164
E-mail: infor@ncaer.org
13.
Anwesha Aditya
Doctoral Research Fellow,
Department of Economics,
Jadavpur University
Mobile: +91-9836152954
E-mail: anwesha.aditya@gmail.com
14.
Aparna Sinha
Research Scholar
Department of Economics
University of Allahabad
C/O Prof P. N. Mehrotra,
Department of Economics
E-mail: pnmehrotra@rediffmail.com
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S.No. Name
Organisation
Contacts
15.
Archana Bhatnagar
President
Mahakoushal Association
of Women Entrepreneurs
{MAWE}
433/2 Napier Town
Jabalpur – 482001, (MP)
Ph: 0761-2311629/5035837
0761-2403629 / 5035837
E-mail: mawe1@rediffmail.com
16.
Arundhati
Chattopadhyay
National Productivity Council,
New Delhi
Utpadakata Bhavan,
5-6 Insitutional Area, Lodi Road,
New Delhi – 110 003
Ph: 24607371, 24690331, Extn: 371
Fax: 24615002
Mobile: 9810025565
17.
Arvinder A. Ansari
Department of Sociology
Jamia Millia Islamia
Mobile: 9899451465
E-mail: Ansari_arvinder@yahoo.com
18.
Ashutosh Sharma
Students, Department of
Economics, Jmi
9891664284
JMI
Cell: 9891664284
E-mail: jordan2sharma@yahoo.com
19.
B. Yerram Raju
Director, Development &
Research Services
6-3-1216/95/A, Plot No.95 Methodist
Colony Begumpet,
Hyderabad – 500 016
Tel: 40-23393512
Fax: 40-23404143, 23404183
Mobile: 9849086672
E-mail: yerramraju@sandilyaconsultants.
org,
yerramr@gmail.com,
drshyd@yahoo.com
20.
B.D.Pawar
Director, CITA
A-3, Gurukrupa Apartments, Narvir
Tanaji Wadi, Shivaji Nagar,
Pune – 411005
Telefax: 020 25533122
Mobile: 9370276686
E-mail: bhagwatroa@gmail.com,
shardkrishi@gmail.com
21.
B.Senthilkumar
Project manager
M/s Ikisan Limited
Vishnu Bhavan
No.1 Nagarjuna Hills
Panjagutta,
Hyderabad – 500 082
Telephone and Fax: +914023350671
Mobile: +919849984764
E-mail: senthil@ikisan.com
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S.No. Name
Organisation
Contacts
22.
Bhim Sain Verma
Representative of Ross
University, New York, USA
Founder Member & Member
of National Executive BoardIndian Institute of History of
Homeopath, Kolkata
C-313/B, Majlis Park,
Delhi – 110033
Tel: 27679058
Fax: 27679058
E-mail: idealunis@yahoo.com
23.
Bidhu Bhusan Mishra
Chairman,
NISDAR,
Plot No. 845/2480,
Baramunda,
Bhubaneswar – 751003.
Mobile: 09437134777
E-mail: nisdar06@yahoo.co.in
bidhumishra2006@yahoo.co.in
24.
Bonapas Onguglo
Chief, Office of the Director,
Project Officer
Division on International Trade
in Goods and Services, and
Commodities
UNCTAD, Geneva
Ph: 0 41 229175495
E-mail: bonapas.onguglo@unctad.org
25.
C. Lalbiaksiami
Present Status: Research
Scholar
Mailing Add: College Veng,
C-37, Near Presby.
Church, Aizawl.
Mobile: 9862360258
26.
Chanchal C. Sarkar
Deputy Director, Department
of Commerce
Ministry of Commerce & Industry,
Govt. of India, Udhyog Bhawan,
New Delhi – 11
Tel: 23063916 (D), 23062261 Ext:554
Fax: 23063418
E-mail: cc.sarkar@nic.in,
chanchal.sarkar@gmail.com
27.
Chandan Kumar Das
Project Coordinator
Development Agency for
Social Improvement (DASI)
Madhuban, Baripada,
P.O. Box No-35
Mayurbhanj – 757 001, Orissa
Tel: (06792) 253555, 257888 (R)
Mobile: 09861208297,
E-mail: dasi@indiatimes.com,
dasibpd@rediffmail.com,
dasibpd@gmail.com
Website: www.craftrevival.org/ngo/
dasi
28.
Chingthanmawi Kullai
Present Status: Research
Scholar (UNCTAD Doctoral
Fellowship Awardee)
M15(b), Mission Vengthlang, Aizawl.
Ph: 0389 – 2301325,
Mobile: 9436353075
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S.No. Name
Organisation
Contacts
29.
D. Narasimha Reddy
Chief Coordinator,
Centre for Handloom
Information and Policy
Advocacy
16-70(F), Ramakrishnapuram,
Chirala Prakasam dist,
AP, India – 523 155
Mobile: 94901-67165
E-mail: narasimha_donthi@yahoo.
com
30.
Debalina Roy
Choudhury
M.Phil. Research Fellow
Department of Economics,
Jadavpur University
Mobile: +91-9433901262
E-mail: rc_debalina@yahoo.com
31.
Debdutta Banerjee
Hony. Secretary
Federation of Associations of
Cottage & Small Industries
(FACSI)
21/1/1, Creek Row
Kolkata – 700 014
West Bengal
Tel: 033-22469281, 30948344,
39587352, 32948344,
9831262389, Resi (22259568)
Fax: 033-22469281
E-mail: shandilyadebdutta@yahoo.
co.in, facsi_kol@yahoo.co.in
32.
Deborah McGurk
Sr. Economic Adviser
DFID India
British High Commission
B-28, Tara Crescent
Qutab Institutional Area,
New Delhi – 110 016
Ph: 26529123
E-mail: D-McGurk@dfid.gov.uk
33.
Dhanpat Ram Agarwal
Director,
Institute of International Trade
6, Waterloo Street, 5th Floor,
Room No.504, Kolkata – 700 069
Fax: 91-33-2243 7688
Ph: 91-33-2243 6504
E-mail: info@iitrade.ac.in; dra@cal2.
vsnl.net.in
34.
Fahmida Khatun
Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Policy Dialogue
Bangladesh
House 40C, Road 11,
Dhanmondi R/A, Dhaka – 1209
GPO Box 2129,
Dhaka – 1000
Bangladesh
Ph: 8802 9145090, 9141734,
9141703, 8124770
Fax: 8802 8130951
Mobile: 880 1713 244 344
E-mail: fahmida@cpd-bangladesh.org
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Organisation
Contacts
35.
Farida Akhtar
Executive Director
UBINIG
22/13, Khiljee Road, Block-B,
Mohammadpur
Dhaka – 1207
Bangladesh
Ph: 880 2 8111 465 / 8124533
Mobile: 880 1715 021898
Fax: 880 2 811 3065
E-mail: nkrishi@bdmail.net,
nayakrishi@siriusbb.com,
36.
Fatima
37.
Fazl-ur-rehman
Roznama Rashtriya Sahara
4th floor,
Sahara India Tower,
7-Kapoorthala Complex,
Aligang, Lucknow (India)
(Res.) C-3124, Indira nagar,
Lucknow – 226016
Fax: (0522)2332936,
Ph: (0522)2337777 Ext.5385
(Res.)2356519
Mobile: 9936600744
E-mail: fazl_rehman@rediffmail.com
38.
G. K. Pillai
Commerce Secretary,
Government of India
Room No.-143, Udyog Bhawan,
New Delhi
39.
Gagan Dhir
Consumer Voice
Mobile: 9312236941
E-mail: Gagan2008@gmail.com
40.
Gunseli Berik
Associate Professor of
Economics and Gender
Studies
University of Utah
1645 Central Campus Drive,
Rm. 308 Salt Lake City,
UT – 84112
Ph: 801 581 7739
Fax: 801 585 5649
Mobile: 801 856 5923
E-mail: berik@economics.utah.edu
41.
Hameda Deedat
University of Cape Town,
Private Bag, Rondebosch – 7701
South Africa
All Africa House, Middle Campus,
Off Stanley Road,
Rondebosch – 7700
Tel: +27 021 4485357 Fax: +27 021 685 2142 l
E-mail: hameda@telkomsa.net
C-2/29–SDA,
Fmfn3@yahoo.com
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Organisation
Contacts
42.
Hanumant Yadav
ISPAT Times
A-3-4, Burhani Plaza, Gokul Super
Bazar, Pandri,
Raipur – 492004
Ph: (R)0771-2262659.
Mobile: 0942552281
E-mail: hpsyadav@sify.com
43.
Harmeet Sarin
International Labour
Organisation
55, Lodhi Estate,
New Delhi – 110003
Ph: 24602101/2/3
E-mail: harmeet@ilodel.org.in
44.
Himanshu Sekhar Rout
Government of Puducherry
PG Department of Economics
Dr. Srk Government Arts
College
(Pondicherry University)
Dr. S R K Government Arts College
(Pondicherry University)
Yanam – 533464
Ph: 0884 2324123
Mobile: 09440851454
E-mail: hsrout1970@gmail.com,
hsrout_01@yahoo.com
45.
Indira Hirway
Centre for Development
Alternatives,
E-71 , Akash, Near Chief Justice’s
Bungalow Bodakdev,
Ahmedabad – 380054, India
E-mail: indira.hirway@cfda.ac.in
46.
Isaac Vanlalhruaia
Research Scholar and Sr.
Statistical Assistant,
Department of Economics,
Mizoram University.
Mailing Add: C-65/A,
Tuikual North, Aizawl,
Mizoram – 796001,OR,
Department of Economics,
Mizoram University,Tanhril: Aizawl.,
Ph: 0389–2317504,
Mobile: 09436366060,
E-mail: jametea@yahoo.com
47.
J Edwards
Asst. Secretary
The Madras Chamber of
Commerce & Industry
Krumuttu Centre, 1st Floor
New No.634 Anna Salai, Nandanam,
Chennai – 600035
Tel: 044-24349452/24349871
Fax: 044-24349164
Mobile: 98843 15409
E-mail: mascham@md3.vsnl.net.in
48.
J. Habib Sy
Executive Direcor, Aid
Transparency
258 B, Cite Djily Mbaye, Yoff,
Dakar Senegal
Tel: 221-8203750
Cell: 221-5691682
Fax: 221-8203667
E-mail: habibsy@aidtransparency.org
Annexes 35
S.No. Name
Organisation
Contacts
49.
J. Lalfakzuala
Present Status: Research
Scholar (UNCTAD Doctoral
Fellowship Awardee)
Mailing Address:
Upper Venglai,
Bawngkawn, Aizawl,
Mizoram – 796014
Mobile: 9862726172,
50.
J. C. Srivastava
Regional Advisor,
Indian Merchant’s Chamber
M-6, Prasad Nagar - II,
New Delhi – 110005
Ph: 91-11-25782741,
Telefax: 91-11-25782741
Mobile: 9891174585
E-mail: jcsrivastava@hotmail.com,
jcsrivastava@vsnl.net
51.
Jacqueline Maleko
Ministry of Industry and Trade
Ministry of Industry and Trade
P.O. Box 9503
Dar es Salaam-Tanzania
Ph: +255 22 21 80075
or +225 744 303993
Fax: +225 22 21 29105
E-mail: jacqiemm2003@yahoo.co.uk
52.
Jhuma Mukherjee
Treasurer MAWE
433/2 Napier Town,
Jabalpur–482002
Ph: 0761 4085072, 4035837
Fax: 0761 2404647
E-mail: mawe1@rediffmail.com
53.
Johan Khalidi B. Mohd
Mokhtazar
Assistant Director, Malaysian
Industrial Development
Authority
12th Floor, Block 4, Plaza Sentral,
Jalan Stesen Sentral 5, Kuala Lumpur
Sentral, 50470 Kuala Lumpur,
P.O. Box 10618, 50720
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Ph: 03-22673633, 03-22673585
Fax: 03-22738468
E-mail: johan@mida.gov.my
Web: www.mida.gov.my
54.
Joseph John
Assistant Professor
ICFAI Institute for
Management Teachers,
ICFAI Business School (IBS)
Hyderabad
Postal Address: 3rd Floor, Astral
Heights, Road No.1, Banjara Hills,
Hyderabad – 500034.
Fax: 040-23430468
Ph: 040-23430469
Mobile: 09866496343
E-mail: tjjoseph@gmail.com,
tjjoseph@icfai.org
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Organisation
Contacts
55.
Jyoti Agarwal
Secretary MAWE
433/2, Napier Town,
Jabalpur (MP) – 482002
Ph: 0761 4085072, 4035837
Mobile: 9827068488
Fax: 0761 2404647
E-mail: mawe1@rediffmail.com
56.
K K Mahapatra
Secretary-cum-Director
Kalaniketan
HIG 167, Dharma Vihar, Khandagiri,
Bhubaneswar – 751030, Orissa
Fax: 0674-2351905
Ph: 0674-2350254.
Mobile: 9437230336
E-mail: kalaniketan_orissa@yahoo.
com
57.
K Saraswathi
Director
TANSTIA FNF Services
11th Cross Street, Industrial Estate,
Guindy, Chennai – 600 032
Ph: 91-044-22501451 (D) 91-04422501402
Mobile: 09840025635
E-mail: dir@tanstiafnf.com
url: www.tanstiafnf.com
58.
K. Angela
Lalhmingsangi
Doctoral Research,
Department of Economics,
Mizoram University, Research
Topic: Gender and Economic
Development: A Case Study of
Mizoram
Mailing Add: Department of
Economics,
Mizoram University.
Ph: 0389 - 2301226
Mobile: 9436351773
E-mail: barefoot02@rediffmail.com
59.
K. P. Sunny
Deputy Director (Economic
Services)
National Productivity Council
Utpadakata Bhavan, 5-6 Insitutional
Area, Lodi Road, New Delhi-110 003
Ph: 24607371, 24690331 Extn: 371
Fax: 24615002
E-mail: kp_sunny1@rediffmail.com
60.
K. Rama Devi
President, Centre for
Entrepreneurship
Development
Association of Lady
Entrepreneurs of Andhra
Pradesh,
#8-2-677/B/1, Road No. 12, Banjara
Hills, Hyderabad-500 034, A.P.
Tel: 91-40-23372313
Fax: 91-40-23372277
E-mail: ced12@rediffmail.com,
ced@aleap.org,
aleap@rediffmail.com
61.
K. Vinod Narayan
Hon. Secretary,
The North Malabar Chamber
of Commerce (NMCC)
Thalassery Road,
Kannur – 670002, Kerala
Mobile: 9447040098
E-mail: pvn_group@dataone.in
Annexes 37
S.No. Name
Organisation
Contacts
62.
K. N. Kishore
Staff Reporter/Sub Editor,
The Hitavada
3rd Floor, Millenium Plaza,
Near Coffee House, Raipur
Ph: 0771-2224447, 2534077
Fax: 2237277,
Mobile: 9424232511
E-mail: knkishore@indiatimes.com,
Knkishore9@gmail.com
63.
Ka. Seethalakshmi
Managing Trustee
Phoenix Federation
R.O.: HB 1, Maraimalai Nagar,
Nagapattinam–611 001
P.O.: 8 / 1, Neela Sannadhi Street,
Nagapattinam 611 001
Fax: 04365 242837
Ph: 04365 242837
Mobile: 0 98426 57963
E-mail: phoenixfederation@gmail.
com, seethalakshmika@gmail.com
64.
Karin Ulmer
Association of World
Council of Churches related
Development Orgainsation in
Europe (APRODEV)
Bd Charlemgne 28 B–1000 Brussels
Ph: 0032 2 234 56 60/64 (o)
Fax: 0032 2 234 56 69 (o)
Mobile: 0032 (0) 472 58 23 33
E-mail: k.ulmer@aprodev.net,
approdev@approdev.net
65.
Kedar Bahadur
Adhikari
Minister (Economic),
Embassy of Nepal
Barakhamba Road,
New Delhi-110001
Ph: 23327361, 23329218
Mobile: 9910563155
Fax: 23326857, 23329647
E-mail: adhikarikb@yahoo.com
66.
Krishna Gopinathsa
Wade
Bank of Maharashtra, Yeola
(Nasik)
Mobile: 9922803446
67.
Kritika Mathur
Sr. Research Associate,
Communications &
Manufacturing Association of
India
P 90 B Basement NDSE Part II,
New Delhi–110049
Telefax: 26250204
Mobile: 9899313224
E-mail: kritikamathur86@yahoo.co.in
cmai.imf@gmail.com
68.
Lakshmi Puri
Acting Deputy SecretaryGeneral
UNCTAD,
Geneva
Ph: 00 41 22 9171781
E-mail: lakshmi.puri@unctad.org
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Organisation
Contacts
69.
Lal Ram Buatsaiha
The Aizawl Post
Mizo Daily Paper
G-7, Chanmari
Aizawl
Ph: 0389 2341869/2345343
Fax: 0389 2345343
E-mail: aizawlpost@rediffmail.com
70.
Lalramthangi
Doctoral Research
Mailing Add: H.No. H/288,
Hunthar Veng, Aizawl,
P.o. Vaivakawn–796009
D/o. Lalzuiliana
Ph: 0389–348720,
Mobile: 9862370567,
71.
Lanyan Chen
Tianjin Normal University of
China
Gender and Social
Development Studies
Tianjin Normal University of China
International Student Center
UIBE No.10 Huixin East Street,
Beijing 100029
Ph: 86 10 58668723
Mobile: 86 13521822748
Fax: 86 22 23766163
E-mail: lanyanc@hotmail.com
72.
Lianzela
Dean, School of Economics
Department of Economics,
Mizoram University
Mizoram University, Tanhril,
Aizwal – 796009
(Mizoram)
Ph: 0389 2330707
Mobile: 09862324657
E-mail: lianzela02@yahoo.com
73.
M. K. Joshi
Director, Council for Social
Development
Sangha Rachana,
53 Lodhi Estate,
New Delhi – 110003, India
Fax: 24616061
Mobile: 9999961744
E-mail: mkjabbi@yahoo.co.in
74.
M. M Krishna
Department of Economics,
University of Allahabad
187/2, Stanley Road,
Allahabad – 211002
Mobile: 09451852957
E-mail: mmkumalld@rediffmail.com
75.
M. R. Saluja
Fellow, India Development
Foundation
316, Qutab Plaza, DLF Phase-1,
Gurgaon – 122002, Haryana
Tel: 95124-4381691-4
Fax: 95124-4381695
Mobile: 9891567812
E-mail: msaluja@idfresearch.org
Annexes 39
S.No. Name
Organisation
Contacts
76.
Mamta Singh
(Research Scholar)
Department of Economics
University of Allahabad
C/O Prof P. N Mehrotra,
Department of Economics
Mobile: 09839448329
E-mail: mamta_singh7070@rediffmail.
com
77.
Mandakini Jema
Secretary, Institute of SocioEconomic Research and
Training
“Kapoti” Plot No.1102,
Mahanadi Vihar,
Cuttack- 753 004,
Orissa
Mobile: 09861154553
E-mail: mandakinijema@yahoo.co.in
78.
Mansi Mishra
Centre for Social Research
2, Nelson Mandela Marg,
New Delhi–110070
Ph: 2689 9998, 2612 5583
Fax: 2613 7823
E-mail: ranjanakumari@csrindia.org
Website: www.csrindia.org
79.
Marzia Fontana
Institute of Development
Studies,
University of Sussex
University of Sussex
M.Fontana@ids.ac.uk
Ph: 44 1273 877 608
Fax: 44 1273 621 202
Mobile: 44 7790 733 716
80.
Mehnaz Ajmal
Research Associate
Sustainable Development
Policy Institute(SDPI)
Pakistan
Sustainable Development Policy
Institute (SDPI)
P.O. Box 2342,
Islamabad #3 UN Boulevard
Diplomatic Enclave-1,
G-5, Islamabad,
Pakistan
Tel: +92-51-2278134, 2275642,
2270674
Fax: 92 51 22 78 135
Mobile: 92 300 911 5706
E-mail: mehnaz@sdpi.org
81.
Meira Kumar
Minister for Social Justice and
Empowerment, Government
of India
Minister for Social Justice and
Empowerment,
Government of India,
Shastri Bhawan,
New Delhi
Fax: 91-11-23381902
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Organisation
Contacts
82.
Mohammad Razzaque
Economic Adviser
Economic Affairs Division
International Trade & Regional
Co-operation Section
Commonwealth Secretariat Marlborough House
Pall Mall
London SW1Y 5HX.
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7747 6273 Fax: Dir +44 (0) 20 7004 3590 Gen
+44 (0) 20 7747 6235
Mobile: 0 750669 4329
E-mail: m.razzaque@commonwealth.
int
Web: www.thecommonwealth.org
83.
Mugumbya
Nakawombe Apollonia
Minister for Women Affairs
Community Dev. And
Bulungibwansi
Social Worker, Majored in
Development
P.O. Box 4793, Kamapala (Uganda)
Ph: +256-752-303032 (Mobile) or
+256-414-578139 (Office)
E-mail: rsuv@utlonline.co.ug
84.
Nabasis Das
Chief Executive
Orissa Rural & Urban
Producers’ Association
(ORUPA)
02/A, 1st Floor,
Krishna Tower
Nayapalli,
Bhubaneswar – 751 012, Orissa
Tel: 0674-2563473, 2563706,
Mobile: 09437179851(R), 9338498123
Fax: 06742563473, 06742563331
E-mail: nabasis@odishacraft.com,
orupa@odishacraft.com, orupa2001@
yahoo.co.in
Website: www.odishacraft.com
85.
Nafisa Ali
Film star and Actress
D-237, Defence Colony,
New Delhi
Mobile: 9811997119 (Sanjay Grover)
E-mail: sanjaygrover007@gmail.com
86.
Nattawat
Krittayanawat
Research Affairs Officials,
Centre for European Studies
Chulalongkorn University
3rd floor, Vidyabhathna Bldg.
Chulalongkorn University, Phyathai
Road, Bangkok-10330
Tel: 66-2-21839223
Fax: 66-2-2153580
Mobile: 66897698360
E-mail: nattawat.k@chula.ac.th,
the_kong@hotmail.com
Web: ces.chula.ac.th
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Organisation
Contacts
87.
Neethi P
Ph. D Fellow, Working on
Globalisation and Organised
Informal Labour Markets: A
Study of Kerala’s Industrial
Women Workers
Centre for Development Studies
Prasanth Nagar, Road, Ullor,
Thiruvananthapuram–695 011
Ph: 0471 2448881-4
Fax: 0471 2447137
E-mail: neethi@cds.ac.in
88.
Nisha
Post Doctoral Fellow ,
Department of Economics
Department of Economics
University of Allahabad
Economic Theory,
8, Nabab Yousuf Road,
Allahabad - 211002
89.
Nivedita Borthakur
Executive officer,
Indian Chamber of Commerce
5, Rajgarh Link Road, Anil Nagar,
Guwahati-7
Telfax: 0361-2461763
E-mail: iccner@indianchamber.org,
nbarthakur.iccner@indianchamber.
org
Mobile: 09864102746
90.
Nivedita Scudder
Chairperson, Unnayan
HIG-143, Kanan Vihar (Phase-I)
P.O: Patia
Bhubaneswar – 751 031 Orissa
Tel: 0674-2741112, 2741198;
Mobile: 94370 24198
Fax: 0674-2743033
E-mail: unnayan89@yahoo.co.in,
unnayanorissa@gmail.com
Website: www.unnayanindia.org
91.
Nutan Bhargava
92.
Osman Goni Talukder
7/15, Savapriya Vihar,
New Delhi-110016
Tel: 26965340
Mobile: 9810077955
E-mail: nuts609@gmail.com
Ministry of women and
children affair
Deputy chief
Ministry of Women and Children Affair
Room #221, Building#06, Bangladesh
Secretariat, Dhaka – 1000
Ph: 880 2 7167068 (o)
880 2 8914558 (R)
Fax: 880 2 7162892
Mobile: 880 1712 714947
E-mail: talukder60@yahoo.com
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Organisation
Contacts
93.
P. Nayak
Director
Textiles Committee (TC)
Market Research Wing
P. Balu Road, Prabhadevi Chowk,
Prabhadevi, Mumbai – 400 025
Tel: 00 91 022–66527515/16
Mobile: 0-98202-21957
E-mail: tcdmr@bom7.vsnl.net.in
94.
P. Shinoj
Scientist, NCAP
NCAP, P. B. No. 11305
Library Avenue,
Pusa, New Delhi – 110012
95.
P.N Mehrotra
Head
Department of Economics
University of Allahabad
Economic Theory ,
8, Nabab Yousuf Road,
Allahabad – 211002
96.
P. N. Anand
Ex DCM
Ph: 26866079
97.
Palitha Ganegoda
Minister, Sri Lanka High
Commission
27, Kautilya Marg, Chanakyapuri,
New Delhi – 110021
Tel: 23014967
Res: 23793712
Fax: 23793604
E-mail: sltradend@bol.net.in
Web: www.newdelhi.mission.gov.lk
98.
Pallavi Saha
Assistant Manager (Resource
Centre), NCTI
NCTI Complex, Pragati Maidan,
New Delhi – 110001
Tel: 23371948/50/53
Fax: 23371979
E-mail: ncti@nda.vsnl.net.in,
pallavi@ncti-india.com
Web: www.ncti-india.com
99.
Pallavi Saha
DGM (Marketing)
National Centre for Trade
Information
NCTI Complex
Pragati Maidan
New Delhi–110 001.
Fax: 011-23371979
E-mail: ncti@nda.vsnl.net.in;
ncti@ncti-india.com
100.
Pamela Singh
Retired Sr. Manager Madhya
Pradesh Tourism
D-237, 1st Floor,
Defence Colony,
Ph: 41555667
101.
Pankaj Arya
Ship Sadhana
14, Ram Block, Sector–11,
Rajajipuram
Lucknow
Ph: 0522 2419005
Mobile: 9451952697, 9415102699
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Organisation
Contacts
102.
Parvez Nayyari
Senior Foreign Correspondent, C-2/29, SDA,
IRNA
Hauz Khas,
Ph: 9211225715
E-mail: irnadel@yahoo.com
103.
Payal
Public Relations Head & Senior 49, Community Centre,
Secretary,
New Friends Colony,
ICCI
New Delhi – 110025
Tel: 9810674347
104.
Pradyumna K.
Samantray
President, Orissa TechnoManagerial Yarn & Fabrics
Marketing Co-Opsociety Ltd.
Plot No. 1195, Nayapalli,
In front of CBI Colony (DAV-CRP Road),
Bhubaneswar – 751012
Mobile: 9861250106
E-mail: president.orifab@gmail.com
105.
Pradyut Guha
Present Status: Research
Scholar (UNCTAD Doctoral
Fellowship Awardee)
Add: Premier Cryorgeric Ltd,
Lokhra Road, Saukuchi,
Guwahati – 781034 (Assam),
Ph: 0361-2477317,
Mobile: 09864040300,Mailing
E-mail: pradyutguha@yahoo.com
106.
Prahlad Kumar
Dy. Coordinator SAP-III
Department of Economics,
University of Allahabad
Department of Economics,
University of Allahabad
Allahabad – 211002
Ph: 0532 2460505 extn 219
Mobile: 9935256318
E-mail: Prahladkumar20_2@rediffmail.
com
107.
Pramod Pushkarna
Group Photo Editor, Aaj
Samaaj
276, Capt. Gaur Marg, Srinivaspuri,
New Delhi – 110065
Ph: 011-41802300/2305
Mobile: 9810045182
E-mail: pkpushkarna@gmail.com,
pkpushkarna@rediffmail.com
108.
Prarthana
Bhattacharya
Doctoral Research Fellow
Department of Economics,
Jadavpur University
Mobile: +91-9836395704
prarthana_1701@yahoo.co.in
109.
Pravir Kumar
Joint Secretary,
Government of India, Ministry
of Micro, Small and Medium
Enterprises
Room No. 122-B, Udyog Bhavan,
New Delhi – 110011
Ph: 23063283,
Telefax: 23062336
E-mail: pravir.kumar@nic.in
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Organisation
Contacts
110.
Pugazhenthy
CEO Coordinator, SFA
Sharaz Farm Academy,
1-85-D, Chamundy Nagar,
Kelamangalam Road, Opp. Spic
Bio Tech, Hosur, 27 Krishnagiri District,
Tamil Nadu
Tel: 04343-230425
Mobile: 09443240425
E-mail: sharaz@sancharnet.in,
sharazfarm@rediffmail.com
111.
R. Carlos Mangunsong
Dept. of Economics, Centre
for Strategic & International
Studies
Tanah Abang III no 23-27,
Jakarta – 10160, Indonesia
Tel: 62-21-386553235
Fax: 62-21-3847517, 3809641
E-mail: carlos_mangunsong@csis.or.id
Web: www.csis.or.id
112.
R. Panir Selvam
Managing Director,
Silver Green Agro Products
Export (India) Pvt. Ltd.
1, A.R.s. Nagar, Pookkollai South,
Medical College Road
Thanjavur – 613 004
Tel: 04362-247274
Fax: 04362-247335
Mobile: 9443140199
E-mail: agrosilver@rediffmail.com,
silveragro@rediffmail.com
113.
R. Sharmila
Project Coordinator
MPEDA
MPEDA,
MPEDA House, Panampily Avenue,
P.B. No.4272 Cochin–682 036
Tel: 00 91 0484-2321722, 2312812,
2311979
Fax: 0484 2312812, 2313361
E-mail: unctad@mpeda.nic.in
Mobile: 09447574587
114.
R. Srinivasulu
Consultant
UNCTAD India Project
Room 421, The Taj Ambassador Hotel,
2, Sujan Singh Park,
New Delhi – 110003
Ph: 24635036/54/55
Fax: 24635000
E-mail: rsrinivasulu@unctadindia.org
115.
R.P. Swami
Secretary-General,
ICCI
49, Community Centre, New Friends
Colony, New Delhi – 110025
Ph: 9810096309
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Contacts
116.
Rabindra Kumar Sahoo
Secretary,
Orissa Project & Marketing
Development Centre,
Palamandap, P.O. Badambadi,
Cuttack – 12, Orissa
Tel: 0671-2323314
Mobile 9437274487
rabiopmdc@yahoo.com
117.
Rachel Pearlin
Citizen Citizen & Civic Action
group (CAG)
India
9/5, II Street, Padmanabha Nagar,
Adyar Chennai – 600020
Ph: 044 24660387, 24914358
E-mail: cag.india@gmail.com
118.
Rajat Acharya
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics,
Jadavpur university
Department of Economics
Jadavpur University
Kolkata – 700 032
Ph: 033 24146328
E-mail: rajat.acharyya@gmail.com,
racharya@cal2.vsnl.net.in
119.
Rajni Aggarwal
President
Federation of Indian Women
Entrepreneurs
1-A, Lower Ground Floor,
Hauzkhas Village,
New Delhi – 110016
Ph: 26850395/46089142
Fax: 26868531
Mobile: 9810026570
E-mail: fiwe123@yahoo.com,
fiwe@vsnl.net
120.
Rajnikant Diwedi
General Secretary,
Human Welfare Association
UP
S-15/ 116, 2 AC, Mawaiya,
Sarnath, Varanasi – 221 007,
Tel: 0542-5544759/2581304
Mobile: 09415304759
E-mail: hwa@rediffmail.com
121.
Rajul Mathur
Department of Economics
University of Allahabad
Ashok Nagar,
Allahabad – 211002
0532- 2423047,2423477
E-mail: ourmathur@gmail.com
122.
Ram Upendra Das
Fellow, RIS
Fourth Floor, Core 4-B, India Habitat
Centre, Lodhi Road,
New Delhi – 110003, India
Ph: 24682177/78/79/80
E-mail: upendra900@gmail.com
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Organisation
Contacts
123.
Rashmi Banga
Sr. Economist
UNCTAD India Project
Room 421, The Taj Ambassador Hotel,
2, Sujan Singh Park,
New Delhi – 110003
Ph: 24635036/54/55
Fax: 91-11- 24635000
E-mail: rashmibanga@unctadindia.
org
124.
Revathi Venkatraman
Secretary, Association of
Women Entreprenuers of
Karnataka
B-76, Industrial Estate, Rajajinagar,
Bangalore – 560 010
Ph: +91-80-23389964, 23111059,
23385874
Fax: +91-80-26760889
Mobile: 9845205669
E-mail: awakener@vsnl.com
125.
Rezani Aziz
Immediate Chairperson,
Women’s Chamber of Industry
&Commerce
Rowland PR
106, Reid Avenue, Colombo 4,
Sri Lanka
Ph: (o)94 11 2500176,
94 11 2588120 ext 133,
(R): 94 11 2806440
Mobile: 94 77 3215441
Fax: 94 11 2500175
E-mail: rezani@bates.lk
126.
Rishi Vivek Dhar
(Research Scholar)
Department of Economics
University of Allahabad
C/O Sri K.P Agrawal
522C/1-A Patel Nagar
Meerapur, Allahabad
Mobile: 09336572207
E-mail: pnmehrotra@rediffmail.com
127.
Ritu Mathur
Programme Officer, Human
Development Resource
Centre, UNDP
55, Lodhi Estate, P.O. Box 3059,
New Delhi – 110003
Ph: 46532429, 24628877
Fax: 24627612, 24628330
E-mail: ritumathur@undp.org
128.
S. Prabhakar
Joint Director (Reporting),
Lok Sabha
132, Parliament House,
New Delhi
Ph: (O) 23034952, 23034686, (R) 2464 3444
Mobile: 9868301483
E-mail: sprabhakar_2000@yahoo.com
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Organisation
Contacts
129.
S.K Lal
Department of Economics
University of Allahabad
C/O Prof S.N Lal ,
5-G Alopibagh Road,
Shiv-Nilay,
Allahabad – 211002
Mobile: 09839160117
E-mail: henchard007@yahoo.co
130.
S.K. Kulkarni
Executive Editor
Kesari Daily
568, Narayan Peth
Pune – 30
Ph: 094- 25468088
Mobile: 09423002154
E-mail: rdnehulkar@yahoo.co.in,
kesari@giaspn01.vsnl.net.in,
d_tilak@hotmail.com
131.
Saileswar Panda
Assistant Secretary,
Asst. Secretary
Federation of Small & Medium
Industries, W.B. (FOSMI)
23, R N Mukherjee Road
Kolkata - 700 001
West Bengal
Tel: 033-2248-5114, 22318382,
22318446, 26790245 (R),
Mobile: 09433218387
Fax: 033-22104075
E-mail: fosmi@cal3.vsnl.net.in
Website: www.fosmi.org
132.
Sailo Lalrinpuii
Department of Economics,
Mizoram University.
Department of Economics, Mizoram
Mailing Add: C-65/A, Tuikual
North,aizawl,
Mizoram–796001, OR,
133.
Saleena Mathew
Professor{Fish Processing} &
Director
School of Industrial Fisheries,
Cochin University of Science &
Technology, Cochin – 16
Ph: 0484-2354711
Fax: 0484-2365952
E-mail: industrialfishery@cusat.in ,
smathew@cutsat.ac.in
134.
Saloni Jha
Research Associate WTO &
FTA, Foreign Trade Division,
FICCI
Federation House, Tansen Marg,
New Delhi-110001
Tel: 23765322(D), 23738760-70
ext: 467
Fax: 23721504, 23320714
E-mail: saloni.jha@ficci.com
Web: ficci.com
135.
Sanjay Kumar
Government of India
Mobile: 9861250106
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Organisation
Contacts
136.
Sanjeev Vasudev
Stadd Development
Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
A-6 DDA, Shahpur Jat
New Delhi–110049 India
Web: http://www.stadd.com
Mobile: 91-98101-12773
Tel: 91-11-26496962
Telefax: 91-11-26496962
137.
Santanu Kumar Patra
Managing Director,
Subarnrekha Marketing Pvt.
Ltd.
Block Bazar, Jaleswar
Balasore – 756032, Orissa
Tel: (06781) 222431/222134
Fax: (06781) 222470
Mobile: 9238500685, 9438047310
E-mail: subarnrekha1@yahoo.co.in
138.
Sarabjit Singh Chhina
Director,
Indian Institute of Industrial
Economics
& Development Society,
72, Sector 4, Ranjit Avenue
Amritsar, Punjab
Tel: 0183-2257622
Mobile: 098551-70335
E-mail: sarbjitchhina@yahoo.co.in
139.
Sarbajita Banerjee
Secretary
GBST Organisation for Social
Empowerment and Development
(OFSED)
44-B, Gokul Baral Street,
Kolkata - 700 012
Tel: 033-22259568
Mobile: 09831503355, 09433834309
E-mail: ofsed@hotmail.com,
sarbajita@gmail.com
140.
Saritha S
Ph D Fellow, Access and
returns to higher education: A
gender Perspective
E-mail: sarithas@cds.ac.in
141.
SAS Yadav
AIWC
26, Industrial Area,
Rewari–123401
142.
Saswatee Mukherjee
Doctoral Research Fellow,
Department of Economics,
Jadavpur University
+91-9830267862
E-mail: saswatee.mukherjee@gmail.
com
143.
Savitri Singh
Advisor—Gender Programme,
International Co-operative
Alliance, Regional Office for
Asia & the Pacific
9, Aradhna Enclave, Sector-13
R K Puram, Ring Road,
New Delhi – 110066
Tel: (91) 11-26888250 Ext. 109,
Fax: 26888067
E-mail: savitrisingh@icaroap.coop
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Organisation
Contacts
144.
Selim Raihan
Assistant Professor of
Economics
South Asian Network on
Economic Modeling
University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
252/3 North Goran, Sipahibag
Dhaka – 1219, Bangladesh
Tel: 0088-02-8821776
Fax: 0088 02 8615583
Mobile: 0088 01713066420
E-mail: selim.raihan@gmail.com
145.
Shahid Ahmed
Economist
UNCTAD India Project
Room 421, The Taj Ambassador Hotel,
2, Sujan Singh Park,
New Delhi–110003
Ph: 24635036/54/55
Fax: 24635000
E-mail: shahidahmed@unctadindia.
org
146.
Shalini Tiwari
(Research Scholar)
Department of Economics
University of Allahabad
C/O Prof P.N Mehrotra, Department of
Economics
Mobile: 09450597341
E-mail: Shalini_kamini@rediffmail.
com
147.
Sharif Qamar
M.A (P)
Jamia Millia Islamia
New Delhi.
Jamia Millia Islamia
New Delhi
Ph. no- +91-9891664284
E-mail: sharifishere@gmail.com
148.
Shilpi Bhardwaj
Research Associate, FICCI,
WTO & FTA, Foreign Trade
Division
FICCI, Federation House, Tansen Marg,
New Delhi – 110001
Ph: 23765322 (D), 23738760-70 Ext: 511
Fax: 23721504, 23320714
E-mail: shilpi@ficci.com
149.
Shirin M. Rai
Director, Leverhulme Trust
Programme Gendered Ceremony and
Ritual in Parliament
Department of Politics and
International Studies
University of Warwick, Coventry CV4
& AL, UK
Ph: 00-44-(0)2476-523429 (direct),
00-44-(0)2476-523486 (Secretary,
GAD Programme)
Fax: 44 24 76524221
E-mail: shirin.rai@warwick.ac.uk
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/
pais/research/gcrp
150.
Shivani Rastogi
National Institute of
Management
New Delhi
Mobile: 9811320917
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Organisation
Contacts
151.
Shobhana Prakash
Vice President
ELCINA Electronic Industries
Association of India
No.2, M.S. Ramaiah Indl Estate
Gokula Extension P.O.
Bangalore – 560 054
Ph: 080-23608788, 23603897
080-23606212
E-mail: shobhana@rmc-india.com
152.
Shreemoyee Patra
Lucid Solutions
BG-1/167, Paschim Vihar,
New Delhi – 110063, India
Ph: 45521821; 9818697944 (M)
E-mail: QndF.Lucid@gmail.com
153.
Simontini Das
UGC Senior Research
Fellow,
Department of Economics,
Jadavpur University
Department of Economics
Jadavpur University Kolkata–700 032
Ph: 033 24146328
Mobile: 9830676473
E-mail: simontini@gmail.com
154.
Sisir Sahoo
President, Kalinga Shilpi
Mahasangha; Managing
Trustee, Kalinga Shilpi Vikash
Trust
N-3/09 IRC Village
Bhubaneshwar – 751015, Orissa
Tel: 0674-6524299, 6523274
Mobile: 099377 82343
Fax: 0674-2556277
E-mail: sisir_mail@yahoo.co.in,
response@kalingashilpi.org,
kalingashilpi@yahoo.com
Website: www.kalingashilpi.org
155.
Sobia Ahmad
Asian Institute of Trade and
Development
Ph: 0092 51 2106091
Fax: C/o Usman Kaker
0092 21 565 0823
Mobile: 0092 321 515 7352 (preferred)
E-mail: Sobia.ahmad@gmail.com
156.
Sohail Safdar
D. G. Foreign Trade Institute of
Pakistan
Foreign Trade Institute of Pakistan,
State Life Building No. 7, Blue Area
Islamabad
Ph: +92-51-9203279
Fax: +92-51-9202146
Mobile: +923335600248
E-mail: sohailsafdar@gmail.com
157.
Soma Mondal
Lecturer,
Department of Economics,
Jadavpur University
Department of Economics
Jadavpur University Kolkata – 700 032
Ph: 033 24146328
+91-9433438878
91-33-2414 6328 (O)
E-mail: soma@jueconomics.in
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Organisation
Contacts
158.
Sonja Blasig
Programme Officer
CUTS, Jaipur, India
CUTS International
D-218 Bhaskar Marg, Bani Park
Jaipur – 302 016, India
Tel: +91.141.2282821
Fax: +91.141.2282485
Mobile: 9982190865
E-mail: sb4@cuts.org, cite@cuts.org
159.
Soumya Sahin
Doctoral Research Fellow,
Department of Economics,
Jadavpur University
Department of Economics
Jadavpur University, Kolkata–700 032
Ph: 033 24146328
Mobile: 91-9830676945
E-mail: soumya.sahin@gmail.com
160.
Sourav Chakraborty
Executive Director,
Aunwesha Knowledge
Technologies Pvt. Ltd.,
209, Garfa Main Road, 2nd Floor
Kolkata–700 078 West Bengal
Telfax: 91-33-24186250 Ph; 24186214
E-mail: sourav@aunwesha.com
161.
Srikanta K. Panigrahi
Director General, Indian
Institute of Sustainable
Development
D-77, Vikas Lane, Shakarpur,
Delhi – 110092
Tel: 24512876
Fax: 22723376
E-mail: info@iisd.org.in
Web: www.iisd.org.in
162.
Stuti Malhotra
Lawyer
E-mail: stuti.malhotra@gmail.com
163.
Subhojit Mukherjee
Deputy Secretary,
FISME
B-4/161, Safdarjung Enclave,
New Delhi – 110029
Ph: 26187948, 26712064, 46023157,
46018592
Fax: 26109470
E-mail: subhojit@fisme.org.in
164.
Subrahmanian T K
Ph D Fellow, International
Competitiveness of India’s
Manufacturing Sector
Centre for Development Studies
Prasanth Nagar, Road, Ullor,
Thiruvananthapuram – 695 011
Ph: 0471 2448881-4
Fax: 0471 2447137
E-mail: subu@cds.ac.in
Mobile: 9447582675
165.
Sunandan Ghosh
Junior Research Fellow,
Department of Economics,
Jadavpur University
Department of Economics
Jadavpur University
Kolkata – 700 032
Ph: 033 24146328
Mobile: +91-9836345493
E-mail: sunandanghosh@gmail.com
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Organisation
Contacts
166.
Supachai Panitchpakdi
Secretary-General of UNCTAD
E-9042 Palais des Nations
8-14, Av. de la Paix
1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
T: +41 22 917 5634; +41 22 917 5806
F: +41 22 917 0042
E: sgo@unctad.org
167.
Suresh Kotak
Chairman
Kotak &Co Ltd (IMC)
Navasari Building,
First floor 240,
Dr D. N Road,
Fort, Mumbai – 400001
Ph: 00 91 2222073331
Fax: 00 91 22 22072267
E-mail: kotakco@vsnl.com
168.
Swapna
Mukhopadhyay
Visiting Fellow National
Institute of Public Finance and
Policy
801/24, Heritage City;
M. G.Road; DLF Phase II
Gurgaon,
Haryana – 122002
Mobile: 91951244362847
E-mail: smukhopadhyay321@gmail.
com
169.
Swati Sachdev
Research Scholar
Room No. 126,
Tapti Hostel Center for the Study of
Regional Development School of
Social Sciences,
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi, India
Mobile: (0) 9818111746
170.
Swati Sharma
Jr. Sub Editor, Feature Desk
Naidunia News & Network Pvt.
Ltd., Indore, M.P.
60/1, Babu Labhchand Chhajlani
Marg, Indore – 452009, M.P.
Ph: 9826078107
Ph: +917313011100
Fax: +917312763118
E-mail: sweety.shaiwal@gmail.com,
swati.sharma@naidunia.com
171.
Syed Mohd. Imran
Senior development Manager,
Network of Entrepreneurship
& Economic Development
(NEED)
39- Neel Vihar, Near 14-Sector Power
House, Indira Nagar,
Lucknow – 226 016, Uttar Pradesh
Ph: 0522 2750393
Fax: 0091-522-2712311
Mobile: 09452965486
E-mail: info@indianeed.org,
imran103@rediffmail.com
Annexes 53
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Organisation
Contacts
172.
T. K. Hore
CEO
Exodus Marine Products &
Export Exodus Aquatics.
Sundaram Apartment
46F, Rafi Ahmed Kidwad Road
6th Floor, 6C,
Kolkata–700016
E-mail: tkhore@vsnl.net
173.
T. S. Dhanapalan
Chairman -TFSC
TANSTIA–FNF Service Centre
11th Cross Street ,Industrial Estate,
Guindy, Chennai – 600 032
Ph: 91-044-22501451 / 43534040
Mobile: 09940102445
E-mail: dir@tanstiafnf.com ,
tfsc@vsnl.com
Website: www.tanstiafnf.com
174.
T.S. Vidyasagar
Principal Consultant, Thimma
Performance Consultants
Group
202, Sroremga Apts. 110 East Park
Road, Malleswaram 8th Cross,
Bangalore – 560 003
Tel: 080-23445359
Mobile: 09448455359
E-mail: thimmagroup@yahoo.com
kannansagar@rediffmail.com
175.
Tharadoc Thongruang
Commercial Affairs Officer,
Thai Embassy
Mobile: 9891200709
176.
Theresa BoasiakoKorang
Assistant Editor/Freelance
Researcher (Gender, Politics
& Media), Information,
Publication & Research
Division Office of Parliament
State House Accra, Ghana
Information, Publication & Research
Division Office of Parliament State
House Accra, Ghana
Tel: 233-21688015
Mobile: 233-244716395
E-mail: tboasiakokorang@parliament.
gh, terry_boko@yahoo.com
Website: www.parliament.gh
177.
Uday Shanker Mishra
Expert on Gender Studies
Centre For Development
Studies
Prasanth Nagar Road, Ulloor,
Thiruvanthapuram-695011,
Kerala, India
Ph: 91-471-2448881-4 (Extn: 222)
Res: 91-471-2556026
Fax: 91-471-2447137
E-mail: mishra@cds.ac.in
udayamishra@yahoo.co.uk
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Organisation
Contacts
178.
Udit Misra
Mint, HT Media Ltd.
16th floor, HT house, 18-20,
Kasturba Gandhi Marg,
New Delhi – 110001
Ph: 66561234
Mobile: 9818791990
Fax: 66561686
E-mail: udit.m@livemint.com
179.
Uma Swaminathan
Director, SEWA Gram Mahila
Haat
“Gram Haat House”, 8, Navrang
Colony, Besides Kashmira Chambers,
Nr Navrangpura Railway Crossing
Navrangpura,
Ahmedabad – 380 009
Tel: 91 79 2658 9729, 26574880
Fax: 91 79 26574678
E-mail: Sgmh1@dataone.in
180.
Usha Ahuja
Senior Scientist, NCAP
NCAP, P. B. No. 11305
Library Avenue, Pusa
New Delhi – 110012
181.
Ushree Sen Gupta
UNCTAD-India Doctoral
International Trade Fellow,
Department of Economics,
Jadavpur University
Department of Economics
Jadavpur University
Kolkata – 700 032
Ph: 033 24146328
Mobile: 91-9231568075
E-mail: ushree2002@yahoo.co.in
182.
V Jegatheesan
Researcher Scholar
Council for Social
Development, India
53 Lodi Estate,
New Delhi – 110003
Ph: 91-11-24611700, 24615383,
Extn: 251
Fax: 91-11-24616061
E-mail: jegatheesan04@gmail.com
183.
V.P. S. Arora
Dean, College of Agribusiness
Management
G.B. Pant University of Agriculture &
Technology
Pantnagar – 263 145
Distt. U.S. Nagar, Uttranchal
Tel: 05944-233884,
Fax: 05944-233533
Mobile: 0941208852
E-mail: vpsa@rediffmail.com
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Organisation
Contacts
184.
Vaijayanti Pandit
Director, Western Regional
Council
Federation of Indian
Chambers of Commerce &
Industry (FICCI)
Krishnamai, Plot No. 33-B,
Sir Pochkhanwala Road, Worli,
Mumbai – 400 030
Ph: 022-24968000
Fax: 022-24966631, 32
drvpandit@ficci.com
185.
Vanali Sharma
General Manager
Rural Non Farm Development
Agency (RUDA)
3rd Floor, Yojana Bhawan,
Tilak Marg, Jaipur
Ph: 91-141-2226861, 2225619
Fax: 91-141-5104844
Mobile: 09413361027
E-mail: info@ruda.org.in
186.
Vasavi Kumar
UNIFEM
D-53, Defence Colony
New Delhi
Ph: 24698297/24604351
Mobile: 9313704694
187.
Vibhuti Shanker
Executive Assistant
UNCTAD India Project
Room 421, The Taj Ambassador Hotel,
2, Sujan Singh Park,
New Delhi – 110003
Ph: 24635036/54/55
Fax: 24635000
E-mail: vibhutishanker@unctadindia.
org
188.
Vikas Medha
Asst. Manager, Client
Servicing, Graphisads
R-300, Greater Kailash Part-I,
New Delhi – 48
Tel: 26228059
Fax: 26228066
Mobile: 9810330407
E-mail: grahisads@graphisads.com
Web: www.graphisads.com
189.
Vinod Apte
Consultant, IMC-UNCTAD
Project
Indian Merchants’ Chamber, IMC Bldg.
2nd Floor, IMC Marg, Churchgate,
Mumbai – 400 020
Tel: 91-22-2204 6633 Extn: 603, 91-222288 6362 (direct)
Resi: 91-22-2833 1365
Fax: 91-22-2204 8508/2283 8281
Mobile: 9820093966
E-mail: vinod@imcnet.org
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Organisation
Contacts
190.
Vinoj Abraham
Joint Coordinator UNCTAD
India Program at CDS &
Research Associate
Centre for Development Studies
Prasanth Nagar, Road, Ullor,
Thiruvananthapuram – 695 011
Ph: 0471 2448881-4
Fax: 0471 2447137
Mobile: 9846512890
E-mail: vinoj@cds.ac.in
191.
Vipul Srivastava
Deputy Secretary, Indian
Merchants’ Chamber,
New Delhi
M-6, MIG Flats, Prasad Nagar II,
Near Rajendra Place,
New Delhi – 110005
Ph: 25782741
Telefax: 25782741
E-mail: srivastava_vipul@hotmail.com
192.
Vivek Krishna Wade
Manufacturers of Paithani &
Brocade Sarees
H.No. 2864, Madhali Galli,
At Post. Tal. Yeola,
Dist. Nasik.
Ph (Res): 02559-266201
Mobile: 9860382910
193.
Yassine Fall
Advser MDGs
Ph: 212 906 6194
Fax: 212 906 6705
Mobile: 201 540 5826
E-mail: Yassine.fall@undp
194.
YumikoYamamoto
UNDP
Asia & Pacific Regional Center
Colombo
Gender & Trade Programme
Advisor
23, Independence Avenue,
Colombo 07,
Sri Lanka
Ph: 94 11 452 6400 ext. 182
Fax: 94 11 452 6410
Mobile: 94 77 343 5158
E-mail: yumiko.yamamoto@undp.org
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