Author: Kym Anderson
Publisher:
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Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The Entwining of Trade Policy with Environmental and Labour Standards
Author: Kym Anderson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The Entwining of Trade Policy with Environmental and Labour Standards
Author: Kym Anderson (economics)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 33
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Social Policy Dimensions of Economic Integration
Author: Kym Anderson
Publisher:
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Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Social policies, particularly environmental and labour issues, are not new to trade policy fora including the GATT. However, they are likely to have a more prominent role in trade policy discussions in the years ahead for the new World Trade Organization. Many developing countries perceive the entwining of these social issues with trade policy as a threat to both their sovereignty and their economies, while significant groups in advanced economies consider it unfair, ecologically unsound, even immoral to trade with countries adopting much lower standards than theirs. This paper examines why these issues are becoming more prominent, whether the WTO is an appropriate forum to discuss them, and how they affect developing and other economies. It concludes that (a) the direct effect on developing economies is likely to be small and for some may even be positive through improved terms of trade and/or compensatory transfer payments, but (b) there is an important indirect negative effect on them and other economies, namely, the potential erosion of the rules-based multilateral trading system that would result from an over-use of trade measures to pursue environmental or labour market objectives.
Publisher:
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Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Social policies, particularly environmental and labour issues, are not new to trade policy fora including the GATT. However, they are likely to have a more prominent role in trade policy discussions in the years ahead for the new World Trade Organization. Many developing countries perceive the entwining of these social issues with trade policy as a threat to both their sovereignty and their economies, while significant groups in advanced economies consider it unfair, ecologically unsound, even immoral to trade with countries adopting much lower standards than theirs. This paper examines why these issues are becoming more prominent, whether the WTO is an appropriate forum to discuss them, and how they affect developing and other economies. It concludes that (a) the direct effect on developing economies is likely to be small and for some may even be positive through improved terms of trade and/or compensatory transfer payments, but (b) there is an important indirect negative effect on them and other economies, namely, the potential erosion of the rules-based multilateral trading system that would result from an over-use of trade measures to pursue environmental or labour market objectives.
˜Theœ entwinning of trade policy with environmental and labour standards
Author: Kym Anderson
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 33
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Environmental and Labor Standards
Author: Kym Anderson
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Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Labour and Environmental Standards
Author: Eugene Beaulieu
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Environmental and labour standards have become an important international trade issue. This article examines and ranks alternative trade policy responses available to an importing country with concerns over such standards. While a full import embargo may sometimes be preferable to allowing unrestricted access to unlabeled non-conforming imports, a partial embargo that allows imports which demonstrably conform to the standard is always a better policy; and labeling solutions, which separate conforming and non-conforming imports, are typically better still. Consequently, full import embargoes based on non-conformity with labour or environmental standards are poor policy choices and should generally remain prohibited by WTO rules.
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Environmental and labour standards have become an important international trade issue. This article examines and ranks alternative trade policy responses available to an importing country with concerns over such standards. While a full import embargo may sometimes be preferable to allowing unrestricted access to unlabeled non-conforming imports, a partial embargo that allows imports which demonstrably conform to the standard is always a better policy; and labeling solutions, which separate conforming and non-conforming imports, are typically better still. Consequently, full import embargoes based on non-conformity with labour or environmental standards are poor policy choices and should generally remain prohibited by WTO rules.
Sustainable Trade
Author: Federatie Nederlandse Vakbeweging
Publisher:
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Category : Foreign trade regulation
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Foreign trade regulation
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The Uruguay Round and the Developing Economies
Author: Will Martin
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821334690
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Agricultural liberalization and the Uruguay round; The Uruguay round: an assessment of economywide and agricultural reforms; Trade in manufactures: the outcome of the Uruguay round and developing country interest; Liberalizing manufactures trade in changing world economy; The Uruguay round and market access: opportunities and challenges for developing countries; Assessing the Uruguay round.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821334690
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Agricultural liberalization and the Uruguay round; The Uruguay round: an assessment of economywide and agricultural reforms; Trade in manufactures: the outcome of the Uruguay round and developing country interest; Liberalizing manufactures trade in changing world economy; The Uruguay round and market access: opportunities and challenges for developing countries; Assessing the Uruguay round.
International Trade Policy
Author: Nigel Grimwade
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134915225
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
This volume provides an introduction to the basic theory behind international trade policy. The author analyses current policy issues within a theoretical framework. The book adopts a thematic approach, with each chapter examining a different issue - each of which is of central importance to contemporary trade policy. The book will be essential for all those who want to understand what governments do, in terms of trade policy and how they do it.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134915225
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
This volume provides an introduction to the basic theory behind international trade policy. The author analyses current policy issues within a theoretical framework. The book adopts a thematic approach, with each chapter examining a different issue - each of which is of central importance to contemporary trade policy. The book will be essential for all those who want to understand what governments do, in terms of trade policy and how they do it.
International Labor Standards and International Trade
Author: Mr.Stephen S. Golub
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1451845537
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
This paper reviews controversies regarding linkage of international trade and labor standards. Pressures for international harmonization of labor standards arise in the context of increased trade between countries with large disparities in wages, and also reflect the history of labor standards. A critical distinction is made between standards related to fundamental human rights and those related to employment conditions. The main conclusion is that trade sanctions to enforce labor standards should not be an option, but that international agreements on core labor standards, with voluntary compliance, may, apart from being worthwhile on ethical grounds, defuse calls for protection.
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1451845537
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
This paper reviews controversies regarding linkage of international trade and labor standards. Pressures for international harmonization of labor standards arise in the context of increased trade between countries with large disparities in wages, and also reflect the history of labor standards. A critical distinction is made between standards related to fundamental human rights and those related to employment conditions. The main conclusion is that trade sanctions to enforce labor standards should not be an option, but that international agreements on core labor standards, with voluntary compliance, may, apart from being worthwhile on ethical grounds, defuse calls for protection.