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Labor Rights And Free Trade; Social Development Parallel To Economic Development, Hassan Razavi
Labor Rights And Free Trade; Social Development Parallel To Economic Development, Hassan Razavi
Hassan Razavi
The trade-based distributional policies have reinforced the issue of social standards in societies and the encroachment of free trade on other international standards particularly the labor standards has linked this matter with the issue of comparative advantage, thus opening the door for claims which are not made in good faith. This research studies the linkage of free trade and social standards under the WTO umbrella and based on justice theories, develop a framework in which the claims for both the protection of human rights and economic growth could be met by developing the idea of parallelism within the current regime …