Labor Standards, Development, and CAFTA

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  • Kimberly Ann Elliott
چکیده

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 publications include Can Labor Standards Improve under Globalization? (2003), Corruption and the Global Economy (1997), Reciprocity and Retaliation in US Trade Policy (1994), Measuring the Costs of Protection in the United States (1994), and Economic Sanctions Reconsidered (2d ed., 1990).

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تاریخ انتشار 2004