Trade Industrialization and Integration in Twentieth Century Central America or International Trade and Human Rights

Trade, Industrialization, and Integration in Twentieth-Century Central America

Author: Irma T De Alonso

The book expresses the views of the contributors about the present and future of Central America. Only by becoming more efficient in productivity, or by exporting non-traditional products, can this region meet the challenge ahead. Central American countries are accepting the challenge by diversifying their economies and accepting the advice of the world in terms of privatization, freedom of trade, capital, and free movement of labor. Central America needs a market for all of its products, and understanding for its new economic structure.

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In 13 papers, most originally presented in March 1993 at a conference held at Florida International University, this volume examines the viability for Central America of trade expansion, diversification, and integration in the current world market by evaluating the region's past performance in these areas. Part I provides a detailed macroeconomic overview of the region from the 1960s to the present. Part II focuses on the performance and structure of trade and its contribution to the industrialization process. Part III discusses industrialization and integration issues. And Part IV focuses on recent economic adjustments and structural forms within the region and examines how these have impacted trade and monetary and development policies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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International Trade and Human Rights: Foundations and Conceptual Issues (World Trade Forum, Volume 5)

Author: Christine Breining Kaufmann

The World Trade Forum 2001 on Trade and Human Rights addressed some of the most controversial and challenging issues in the ongoing public debate on globalization: the relationship between institutions and norms regulating global economic activity and institutions and norms promoting and protecting human rights. Presenting a selection of the papers discussed at the Forum, this volume focuses on a significant, developing area of international law certain to become increasingly important in the years to come, as both scholarship and jurisprudence continue to explore the boundaries of the intersection of the two fields. With a diverse array of contributors, International Trade and Human Rights addresses the relationship between human rights and international trade from a unique and important interdisciplinary perspective.
The missing link between the international trade regime and human rights has become one of the key concerns of critics of the WTO. The World Trade Forum 2001 at the World Trade Institute in Berne provided a unique framework for considering the manifold issues relevant to this topic. This book goes beyond listing the different arguments in favor of or against globalization and offers recommendations to the international community for possible reforms so as to better account for the human rights interests affected by the process of globalization.
Frederick M. Abbott is the Edward Ball Eminent Scholar Professor of International Law at Florida State University College of Law. He is the editor of China in the World Trading System: Defining the Principles of Engagement (1998) and author of The International Intellectual Property System:Commentary and Materials (with Thomas Cottier and Francis Gurry, 1999).
Christine Breining-Kaufmann is Professor of Law at the University of Zurich and Senior Research Fellow as well as a member of the Board of the World Trade Institute in Berne. Her publications include Hunger als Rechtsproblem: Völkerrechtliche Aspekte eines Rechtes auf Nahrung (1991) and Globalization and Labour Rights: The Conflicting Relationship between Core Labour Rights and International Economic Institutions (2006).
Thomas Cottier is Managing Director of the World Trade Institute and Professor of Law at the University of Berne. He has co-edited the previous four volumes of the World Trade Forum series.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction	3
2	Reflections on the possible research agenda for exploring the relationship between human rights norms and international trade rules	19
3	Human rights, markets and economic welfare : constitutional functions of the emerging UN human rights constitution	29
4	International trade and human rights : an economic perspective	69
5	Governance, trade and human rights	93
6	Safeguarding the legitimacy of the multilateral trading system : the role of human rights law	121
7	Functional distinction or bilingualism? : human rights and trade : the UN human rights system	133
8	TRIPS and human rights : preliminary reflections	145
9	A human rights approach to the WTO's TRIPS agreement	171
10	The WTO dispute settlement and human rights	181
11	Trade and human rights in European Union law : linkages in the case-law of the European court of justice	261
12	Comments on the European Union : transparency and human rights	285
13	Trade and the European Convention on Human Rights	289
14	The use of trade instruments in the pursuit of human rights : European foreign policy	305
15	International trade and human rights in Africa : a comment on conceptual linkages	321
16	Integrating trade and human rights in the Americas	329
17	Unilateralism and multilateralism in U.S. human rights laws affecting international trade	357