Several major trade agreements in recent years have included a provision that addresses labor standards. Other trade …

Various groups have been demanding that discussions of labor standards be included in all future trade negotiations …

Trade and immigration are generally described as separate dimensions of globalization. This Article challenges that … and policy goals. In one set of cases analyzed here, governments in the Global South are seeking to increase trade through … trade by investing in export processing zones in migrant origin countries, on the theory that more trade, and the employment …

global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and … pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric ways with respect to (i) the nature of unilaterally optimal trade … the pros and cons of deep trade integration as a remedy, involving well-enforced labor standards both upstream and …

. It stresses the importance of the successful conclusion of the Doha Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations and the role … engage the developed countries in the process of mutually beneficial across the board liberalization of trade in goods and …

What is a “worker-centered” trade policy? The Biden administration claims that it means protecting all workers …—foreign and American—from exploitative working conditions in trade sectors. The administration’s vigorous enforcement of … international labor rights suggests a significant departure from previous U.S. trade priorities centered on domestic interests. For …

policies, particularly in a dollarized economy, highlighting the complex implications of trade measures on firm performance and …

argued in this paper, however, it is not all that easy to lay our hands on ‘robust’ facts. Quantitative analyses of trade …, for instance, Africa’s poor stand to gain from further trade opening under the Doha Round into one in which they would … stand to lose. Most studies agree though that trade opening probably adds to aggregate welfare, but gains are small and …

Since early 2008 interim trade agreements between the EU and six regions of ACP countries (respectively sub … disaggregated data for trade and tariffs (HS six digit level) and follows a simple analytical model by Milner et al. (2006) to … quantify the welfare effects of trade liberalization. We extend the literature in two principal ways: First, we estimate …