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Trade in the service of sustainable development : linking trade to labour rights and environmental standards /
"In the Bretton Woods era, trade liberalization, the improvement of labour rights and working conditions, and the strengthening of environmental policies, were seen as mutually supportive. But is this always true? Can we continue to pretend to protect the rights of workers and to improve enviro...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Hart Publishing,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Boxes; List of Figures; List of Tables; Introduction; 1. Setting the Stage: The Limits of Fragmentation; I. Trade and Labour Rights; II. Trade and Environmental Standards; III. The Use of Environmental and Labour Conditionalities in Trade Policies; 2. Sanctions Against Goods or Services that do not Comply: WTO Disciplines; I. The Core Disciplines of the WTO Regime; II. The 'Likeness' of Goods and Services and the Product/Process Distinction.
- III. The 'General Exceptions' Clauses of Article XX GATT and Article XIV GATSIV. Conclusion; 3. The Special Regime of Border Tax Adjustments: Levelling the Playing Field; I. The Notion of Border Tax Adjustments; II. Border Tax Adjustments under WTO Law; III. Determining the Level of the Compensatory Tax; IV. Conclusion; 4. Generalized Systems of Preferences: The 'Conditional Preferences' Approach; I. The Origins of the Generalized System of Preferences; II. The Emergence of 'Special Incentives' within the EU GSP Scheme; III. The Three Layers of the Current EU GSP Scheme.
- 5. Labelling Schemes: Supporting Ethical ConsumerismI. The Rise of the Debate on Labelling Schemes; II. Compatibility with WTO Law; 6. Public Procurement: The Power of the Purse; 7. Conclusions; I. 'Sanctions' for Non-compliance with Labour Rights or Environmental Standards; II. 'Carbon Equalization' through Border Tax Adjustments: Levelling the Playing Field; III. The EU Generalized System of Preferences: Making Preferences Conditional; IV. Labelling Schemes: Supporting Ethical Consumerism; V. Government Procurement: The Power of the Purse; Afterword; Index.