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With expanding global trade, the challenge of protecting consumers from unsafe food, pharmaceuticals, and consumer products has grown increasingly salient, necessitating the development of new policy ideas and analysis. This chapter introduces the book, Import Safety: Regulatory Governance in...
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This paper highlights the implication of consumerism on the incidence of child in a developing economy using a two-sector general equilibrium model. It finds that although consumerism raises incomes of the poor households and decreases the earning opportunities of the children, this is not...
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National food labelling legislation dealing with matters such as health claims nutritional content and safety warnings are governed by a complex of international agreements the most important of which are the the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) and on the Application of...
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In the wake of scandals involving lead toys, toxic toothpaste, poisonous pet food, and other dangerous products in recent years, policymakers have proposed a variety of strategies that purport to address safety concerns. Though many of these proposals would have salutary effects on consumer...
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be more than $315 billion. In light of this reality, regulators around the world have been striving to create markets …, Part III looks into three other key food health labeling methods employed in different parts of the world. Thereafter, Part …
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The consumers are most disadvantaged part of the market and are in that the litigation for common man is costly and time consuming and hence getting justice disadvantageous due to the non-fortification of their rights they are suffering from lots of undersigned elements such as misleading...
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one jurisdiction in the world that comes closest to implementing all 12 principles across the full spectrum of consumer …
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This article uses the example of one of the best-known global payment systems provided by an online platform, PayPal, to analyze the role of private legal orders in creating new markets beyond jurisdictional borders. It shows that a relatively uniform legal order reduces risks involved in...
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