Labor Standards and Trade Sanctions: Right End Wrong Means
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Kimberly Ann Elliott is a research fellow at the Institute for International Economics and has a joint appointment with the Center for Global Development. She served on the National Academies Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards in 2002–03 and, in 1999, as chair of the Task Force on Civil Society of the State Department Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy. Her p...
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