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Dr. Hella Hoppe is a political economist. Currently, she
is a Visiting Researcher at the German Friedrich Ebert Foundation
in New York, USA. Prior to her current position, she was
Assistant Professor (C1) at the Institute of Political Science
for Comparative/International Political Economy, Multimedia
and Gender Studies at University of Muenster where she taught
courses in International Political Economy, Human Security,
Globalization of the World Economy and Feminist Economics.
In 2001/2002 Hella Hoppe held the position as Research
Associate in the secretariat of the Enquete-Commission of
the German Parliament "Globalization of the World Economy:
Challenges and Responses" and contributed substantially
to the chapters of the final report on Labor markets, Social
Standards and Gender Justice. From 1996-2001, she worked
as a Research Assistant at the Institute of Macroeconomics,
University of Aachen. For her dissertation on Feminist Economics
("summa cum laude") she received the Friedrich-Wilhelm
Award given to the best dissertations at University of Aachen.
Her main research areas are globalization of the world economy,
labor markets and feminist economics.
Selected Publications:
Hoppe, Hella / Dolfsma, Wilfred (2004). Global Gender Division
of Labour, in: Global Political Economy and the Wealth of
Nations: Performance, Institutions, Problems and Policies,
ed. by Philip O'Hara. London / New York: Routledge, forthcoming.
Young, Brigitte / Hoppe, Hella (2003). The Doha Development
Round, Gender and Social Reproduction. Berlin / New York:
FES.
Hoppe, Hella (2002). Feministische Ökonomik. Gender
in Wirtschaftstheorien und ihren Methoden. Berlin: Sigma.
Hoppe, Hella (1999). Foundationalism and Anti-foundationalism,
in: Encyclopedia of Political Economy, ed. by Philip O'Hara,
London / New York: Routledge, pp. 367-369
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Engendering Globalization - Linking WTO/GATS and
Financing for Development
The liberalization of trade and financial markets, and
the growing influence of transnational corporations result
in worldwide consequences on the economic and social situation
of people. This research project explores globalization
processes and developments in the macroeconomic environment
in trade and finance that challenge the economic status
especially of women.
The proposed project has two goals. First, it will be studied
how the multilateral trading system impacts women. It is
planned to work in cooperation with the UNCTAD Task Force
on "Gender und Trade". Second, the outcome of
this study will be linked to the known Financing for Development
(FfD) processes. The work will be conducted during a visit
at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, New York USA. The structural
problems of multilateral trading systems that are identified
as the outcome of the first part of the project are challenged
by a relationship agreement that will link the WTO to the
UN. The aim is to enhance the ability of the UN to ensure
that the WTO fully respects the jurisdiction of UN agencies,
funds and bodies especially with a view to gender related
concerns. To facilitate the establishment of such an agreement,
it is planned to provide guidelines for policy making institutions
to improve the situation of woman in the globalized world
economy.
Because a study on engendering trade, investment and financing
must be used in the broadest sense, including human rights,
migration flows and geopolitical changes, the New Century
Scholars (NCS) community will be of significant importance
for the debates.
A key objective is to link discussions on FfD with European
debates on WTO with focus on the gendered nature of GATS
and investment. As several US-American based stakeholders
are involved in the FfD process, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
in New York offers the perfect platform to facilitate these
debates.
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Visiting
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