Reforming World Trade: The social and environmental priorities
| dc.contributor.author | LeQuesne, Caroline | * |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-02-03T11:01:45Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2011-02-03T11:01:45Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 1996-01-01 | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-0-85598-346-8 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10546/121031 | |
| dc.description | Reforming World Trade stresses the urgent need for enforceable minimum international standards to protect workers' basic rights and to promote sustainable development. Recommendations are made for the World Trade Organisation to cooperate more closely with the ILO and with international environment bodies, to develop mechanisms for safeguarding labour and environmental standards, and to adopt more transparent and accountable ways of working. | en_US |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | Introduction; Chapter one: The Uruguay Round; From GATT to WTO; Winners and losers; Unresolved issues; Chapter two: International trade and labour standards; The garments industry in Bangladesh; Codes of Conduct; The role of the ILO; The case for a social clause; Lessons from other trade agreements; The way forward; Chapter three: Reconciling trade and sustainable development; Profits and pollution havens; International trade, economic growth, and the environment; The WTO: an inadequate framework for sustainable development; Sustainable natural resource management; Case study: promotion of a sustainable banana trade; Institutional reform; Chapter four: An agenda for reform; The case for reform | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 120 | en_US |
| dc.format.mimetype | en | |
| dc.language.iso | English | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Oxfam GB | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Oxfam Insight | en_US |
| dc.relation.url | https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/reforming-world-trade-the-social-and-environmental-priorities-121031 | |
| dc.subject | Rights | |
| dc.subject | Trade | |
| dc.title | Reforming World Trade: The social and environmental priorities | en_US |
| dc.type | Book | en_US |
| oxfam.signoff.status | For public use. Can be shared outside Oxfam | en_US |
| oxfam.subject.country | Uruguay | en_US |
| oxfam.subject.country | Bangladesh | en_US |
| oxfam.subject.keyword | Trade policy | en_US |
| oxfam.subject.keyword | World Trade Organisation | en_US |
| oxfam.subject.keyword | WTO | en_US |
| dc.year.issuedate | 1996 | en_US |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2018-08-17T06:18:36Z |
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