Maertens, Miet; Swinnen, Johan F.M. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2007
The debate on trade and poverty is reinforced by recent studies on the role of standards. It is argued that increasing … standards act as trade barriers for developing countries and cause further marginalization of the poor. This paper is the first … to quantify income and poverty effects of such high-standards trade and to integrate labor market effects, by using …