Samoa Trade Facilitation Challenges for Women Traders and Freight Forwarders : Survey Findings and Recommendations
Trade is widely recognized to be an engine of growth that creates jobs, reduces poverty, and increases economic opportunity. Trade facilitation measures are non-discriminatory and apply to all traders in their design; however, these measures may no...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/657271614580261312/Samoa-Trade-Facilitation-Challenges-for-Women-Traders-and-Freight-Forwarders-Survey-Findings-and-Recommendations http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35223 |
| Summary: | Trade is widely recognized to be an
engine of growth that creates jobs, reduces poverty, and
increases economic opportunity. Trade facilitation measures
are non-discriminatory and apply to all traders in their
design; however, these measures may not necessarily impact
or benefit all traders in similar ways. There is a global
lack of data on how trade facilitation interventions impact
traders by gender at the firm level. There is also a global
vacuum of knowledge of the exact proportion of cross-border
traders that are women. Few countries, if any, can easily
confirm the number of women that undertake cross-border
trade in their respective countries. Designing interventions
that are inclusive, benefiting women as well as men, is
difficult without accurate data on the gander of those who
participate actively in cross-border trade. Without this
knowledge and that of the exact challenges faced by both
genders, it is also hard to tell how much any subset of the
economy would be impacted by any intervention. This lack of
data may also reinforce the bias against women in trade
policy making. This note presents findings of the survey
work in Samoa. Samoa is a small archipelago, and the Apia
seaport serves as the international gateway for almost 100
percent of all freight imports and exports for the country.
Inter-island freight transport also depends on access to
Apia Port. |
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