The WTO, through its Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Agreement as well as its Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Agreement encourages member states to set up a framework of maintaining nutritional standards. It is pertinent to mention here that the since these agreements do not specifically...

China has been participating in the international standards activities since the reform and opening up period. China’s standards action has not only brought about significant changes in the way of international trade, but also changed the connotation and manifestation of economic growth, which...

This study uses a new dataset to provide comparative gaps, benchmarking with best performers and policy syndromes of growth quality in 93 developing countries with data for the period 1990-2011. Sigma and Beta estimation strategies are used to provide between and within cross-country...