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dc.contributor.authorLeQuesne, Caroline*
dc.date.accessioned2011-02-03T11:01:45Zen
dc.date.available2011-02-03T11:01:45Zen
dc.date.issued1996-01-01
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-85598-346-8
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10546/121031
dc.descriptionReforming 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.tableofcontentsIntroduction; 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 reformen_US
dc.format.extent120en_US
dc.format.mimetypePDFen
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherOxfam GBen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesOxfam Insighten_US
dc.relation.urlhttps://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/reforming-world-trade-the-social-and-environmental-priorities-121031
dc.subjectRights
dc.subjectTrade
dc.titleReforming World Trade: The social and environmental prioritiesen_US
dc.typeBooken_US
oxfam.signoff.statusFor public use. Can be shared outside Oxfamen_US
oxfam.subject.countryUruguayen_US
oxfam.subject.countryBangladeshen_US
oxfam.subject.keywordTrade policyen_US
oxfam.subject.keywordWorld Trade Organisationen_US
oxfam.subject.keywordWTOen_US
dc.year.issuedate1996en_US
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