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Trade and Labor Standards: A Strategy for Developing Countries
Source: Carnegie
TRADE AND LABOR STANDARDSA Strategy for Developing Countries
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Summary
Conventional wisdom holds that integrating labor and social issues into
international trade regimes will be one of the very hardest trade policy challenges
to resolve. In Trade and Labor Standards: A Strategy for Developing Countries,
Sandra Polaski argues, to the contrary, that recent developments present a new
strategic opportunity for developing countries to link trade with domestic policies
that promote poverty alleviation, more equitable income distribution, and better
working conditions. This linkage can generate greater market access for developing
countries and at the same time disseminate the benefits of trade liberalization
more broadly to their citizens, creating a true win-win outcome.
About the Author
Sandra Polaski is senior associate in the Trade,
Equity, and Development Project at the Carnegie Endowment. She served from
1999–2002 as the Special Representative for International Labor Affairs
at the U.S. Department of State, the senior official handling labor matters
in U.S. foreign policy.
Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.