Explores how public actors, especially in home countries, link foreign direct investment (FDI) to labour and employment issues.

Discusses the relationship between labour market regulation and regional trade agreements from both a legal and an economic angle. Examines whether regional trade liberalisation is associated with deterioration of domestic labour standards beyond those reflected in the 1998 ILO Declaration on...

Looks at recent complaints under the labour chapters of three US trade agreements, the CAFTA-DR, the US-Bahrain and the US-Peru FTAs. Analyses the way both labour unions and the competent authorities in the United States have used or relied on the comments of the ILO's supervisory bodies in the...

The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is moving towards closer economic integration among its Member States, including the free mobility of professionals and highly skilled workers. The freer flow of goods and capital will place path dependence, which encourages firms that already hire migrant...

Argues that the changeover from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) to the World Trade Organization (WTO) had little effect on industrialization policies of middle-income countries.

Examines how the development policies used by successful late industrializers would fare under the current WTO regime.