Publication: Fiji Trade Facilitation Challenges for Women Traders and Freight Forwarders: Survey Findings and Recommendations
Date
2019-06-01
ISSN
Published
2019-06-01
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
This note presents the results of a
survey undertaken in Fiji from May to June 2019 with the
intention to identify the specific challenges men and women
cross-border traders are facing related to trade
facilitation at the firm level. Generally, efforts to
improve trade conditions, especially relating to women
cross-border traders, have been progressing over the years.
Yet, there is limited work focusing on trade facilitation
initiatives and trade competitiveness interventions aimed at
women firms who face trading barriers that are not strictly
linked to tariffs or policies. There is a global data gap on
the nature of barriers that women traders face related to
trade facilitation at the firm level. In fact, the problem
is even deeper rooted; there is a global vacuum of knowledge
about the exact proportion of cross-border traders that are
women. No country, not even the gender equality champions in
Northern Europe, can easily confirm the number of women that
undertake cross-border trade in their respective countries.
A survey designed to collect data on these challenges is
being rolled out in the Pacific. Countries in the Pacific
Islands region face unique development challenges: they are
physically detached from major markets, have small
populations spread across many islands and time zones,
confront the worst impacts of climate change, and are some
of the most vulnerable countries to natural disasters in the world.
Citation
“World Bank. 2019. Fiji Trade Facilitation Challenges for Women Traders and Freight Forwarders : Survey Findings and Recommendations. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/35226 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”