Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become an integral part of many companies' business strategy. A detailed analysis 579 RTAs, including 305 agreements currently in force and notified to the WTO (as December 2020), reveals that a limited but increasing number namely 65 agreements, refer explicitly CSR. These CSR-related provisions are particularly heterogeneous terms location RTA, l...

RLabonté et al entitle their paper in this issue of the International Journal of Health Policy and Management “The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Is It Everything We Feared for Health?” Tantalisingly, they do not directly answer the question they pose, and in this commentary, we suggest that it is the wrong question; we should not ‘fear’ the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) at all, rather we should ...

I. Introduction Trade integration in Africa is often viewed in light of the European Union and other regional integration arrangements like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). From this perspective, integration is regarded as necessarily destined to proceed on a linear path where tariffs and non-tariff barriers are progressively eliminated, the trade regimes of member countries are...