LeQuesne, Caroline

Reforming World Trade stresses the urgent need for enforceable minimum international standards to protect workers’ basic rights and to promote sustainable development. Recommendations are made for the World Trade Organisation to cooperate more closely with the ILO and with international environment bodies, to develop mechanisms for safeguarding labour and environmental standards, and to adopt more […]

This best-selling book explains how countries that depend on the export of primary commodities, like coffee or cotton, are caught in a trap: the more they produce, the lower the price falls on the international market. If they try to add value to their commodities by processing them, they run into tariff barriers imposed by […]