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Labor Standards, Development, and CAFTA

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  • Kimberly Ann Elliott

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The debate over linking trade and worker rights is often a dialogue of the deaf, with advocates on either side paying little attention to the scope for positive synergies between labor standards, development, and globalization. Instead, each side views the other as promoting positions that will, intentionally or not, impoverish poor people in poor countries. Opponents of global labor standards fear that these standards will undermine developing countries' comparative advantage in low-wage goods or be abused for protectionist purposes, thereby denying workers jobs. Standards advocates argue that failure to include labor standards in trade agreements increases inequality and leads to a race to the bottom for workers worldwide.

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  • Kimberly Ann Elliott, 2004. "Labor Standards, Development, and CAFTA," Policy Briefs PB04-02, Peterson Institute for International Economics.
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