Policy Forum Introduction: Linking trade and the environment
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The second part of this special issue on trade and the environment is a policy forum based on a paper by Jagdish Bhagwati that argues strongly against ‘burdening trade treaties and negotiations with social agendas’. The paper is not just a critique of the environmentalists’ case for linking trade and the environment in the millennium round of the WTO. It is also the rationale for a number of positive proposals including:
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International Trade, the Environment and Sustainable Development
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