Consumers have increasing demands for product standards. This has important implications for development. This paper … develops a formal theory of the process of the introduction of high product standards in developing countries. The model … endogenizes the introduction of high standards. Initial differences in income, the nature of capital constraints and transaction …

the sense that either monetary transfers accompany uniform abatement standards (agreements based on a uniform standard … with monetary transfers), or differentiated abatement standards are established, but without monetary transfers (agreements … based on differentiated standards). For two asymmetric countries facing the challenge of a transboundary pollution problem …

This paper summarizes and analyses the status quo of the sericultural standards in China, and points out the … characteristics and existed problems of sericultural standards in China. In addition, the future of the sericultural standards system …

unsatisfactory that, five years after the global financial crisis broke, the international Standards for internal auditing still do …

assess the performance and acceptance of the technology and validate design and installation standards. We comment on both … the technical and non-technical findings of the trials and the related academic research and their relevance to standards … achieved. Industry needs to demonstrate that efficiency standards can be assured, capital costs reduced in the medium-term and …

Standards and the global framework. The BIS as host of standard setting bodies. Legal impact of standards. …