Minimum social standards for international trade?

Social Standards in International Trade

minimum standards for pre-trial detention in International instruments and Iran law

Stressing that the consequences of today's social, economic, legal and penal population inflation and overcrowding in prisons, the issue has turned into the most complex challenges in the criminal justice system, the pre-tria detention, one of the main factors is the increase in the penal population it is, in a way that almost a quarter of the total population of prisoners in Iran and the world...

International standards in mitigating trade risks.

This paper describes the role of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), as a science-based and democratic standard-setting organisation that provides guidance on preventing the spread of animal diseases, including zoonoses, in international trade. The World Trade Organization is identified as the international institution with the legal power to encourage adherence to international sta...

February 2008 International Trade , Minimum Quality Standards and the Prisoners ’ Dilemma Dimitra Petropoulou

Unilateral minimum quality standards are endogenously determined as the outcome of a noncooperative standard-setting game between the governments of two countries. Cross-country externalities from the implementation of minimum quality standards are shown to give rise to a Prisoners’ Dilemma structure in the incentives of policy-makers leading to inefficient policy outcomes. The role of minimum ...

Codex Alimentarius: food quality and safety standards for international trade.

Since 1962, the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) of the Food and Agriculture Organisation/World Health Organisation has been responsible for developing standards, guidelines and other recommendations on the quality and safety of food to protect the health of consumers and to ensure fair practices in food trade. The mission of the CAC remains relevant, but a number of factors have shown the n...