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Core Labour Standards in Trade Agreements : From Multilateralism to Bilateralism.

dc.contributor.authorGranger, Clotilde
dc.contributor.authorSiroën, Jean-Marc
HAL ID: 11077
ORCID: 0000-0003-4494-3169
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-12T09:59:09Z
dc.date.available2009-06-12T09:59:09Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.identifier.urihttps://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/255
dc.language.isoenen
dc.subjectSOCIAL developmenten
dc.subjectINTERNATIONAL Labour Organisationen
dc.subjectECONOMIC developmenten
dc.subjectTRADE regulationen
dc.subjectTRADE negotiationen
dc.subjectLABOR laws & legislationen
dc.subject.ddc338.9en
dc.subject.classificationjelO19en
dc.subject.classificationjelO16en
dc.subject.classificationjelF16en
dc.subject.classificationjelF13en
dc.titleCore Labour Standards in Trade Agreements : From Multilateralism to Bilateralism.en
dc.typeArticle accepté pour publication ou publié
dc.contributor.editoruniversityotherPanthéon-Assas Paris II;France
dc.description.abstractenAlthough discussion concerning the inclusion of core labour standards has been excluded from the Doha agenda, the question continues to be debated. In fact, on an international level, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has become increasingly active since the World Trade Organization (WTO) Singapore Ministerial Declaration. On a regional level, social clauses are now being introduced inside preferential-trade agreements. These evolutions feed the debate regarding the link between labour standards and trade. This article takes a closer look at this debate and re-assesses the traditional economic analysis, which is today more sophisticated and balanced than was the case a few years ago. Improving labour standards, in association with trade openness, might speed up development. However, governments do not necessarily choose the best way to promote social and economic development. This fact can be explained by political economic analysis. In this article, we weigh the pro- and anti-social clause arguments of interest groups both within developed and developing countries, to explain national choices concerning labour standards. The issue also concerns the stability of international trade relations. We stress that although they are excluded from multilateral arrangements, core labour standards provisions are omnipresent in bilateral or regional preferential-trade agreements. This paradox is likely to jeopardize the multilateral system. Putting aside ethical or moral considerations, we show that economic arguments can possibly allow the inclusion of a non-protectionist, realistic and reasonable trade-labour linkage. We conclude that the inclusion of such a clause in multilateral trade law is less dangerous than its non-inclusion.en
dc.relation.isversionofjnlnameJournal of World Trade
dc.relation.isversionofjnlvol40en
dc.relation.isversionofjnlissue5en
dc.relation.isversionofjnldate2006-10
dc.relation.isversionofjnlpages813-836en
dc.description.sponsorshipprivateouien
dc.relation.isversionofjnlpublisherAspen Publishersen
dc.subject.ddclabelCroissance et développement économiquesen


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