Can trade agreements be a friend to labour?

Labour advocates have long complained that international trade agreements are driven by corporate agendas and pay little attention to the interests of working people. The preamble of the World Trade Organisation Agreement mentions the objective of "full employment," but otherwise labour standards remain outside the scope of the multilateral trade...

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Ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns

Globally more people are expected to join the middle class over the next two decades. This is good for individual prosperity but it will increase demand for the already constrained natural resources. If appropriate actions to change the consumption and production patterns are not taken, it will cause irreversible damage...

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