Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Pros and Cons of Linking Trade and Labor Standards

Pros and Cons of Linking Trade and Labor Standards
This all began to change in the early 1990s, for several reasons to be mentioned below. Some of this compartmentalization has already disappeared, and more of it seems to be on the way out, as important constituencies now favor integrating the issues under a single institutional framework. Because the successor to the GATT, the World Trade Organization (WTO), is the only international organization with meaningful enforcement powers, it has become the favored place for integrating these diverse policy issues.

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