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Robert Holzmann, Director of Social Protection,
World Bank |
12 February 2003 Labor Standards and Their Role in Economic
Development, press release from the World Bank |
"The need for workers, employers, and government to find solutions
that cut poverty through both growth and better distribution of
income is bcoming increasingly urgent in an era of globalization." |
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William D. Rogers, Chairman of the Round Table,
Cordell Hull Institute |
January 2002
Cordell Hull Institute |
The creation of the World Commission, which could draw on the
activities of each of these forums, should help to shift the
energies of governments towards the politics of dialogue rather
than the politics of stalemate. |
| Aaron
Schavey, Policy Analyst, Center for International Trade and
Economics, Heritage Foundation |
27
November 2001
Financial Times |
" The evidence shows that increased trade leads to increased
economic growth, which raises labour and environmental standards.
For example, a Brookings Institution study found that the
incidence of child labour declines dramatically as per capita
income rises. Similarly, a recent study by the Heritage Foundation
found that countries that are more open to trade tend to maintain
higher environmental standards. Imposing labour and environmental
standards on developing countries will only deter the most
effective means of raising labour and environmental standards
around the world: increasing growth through increased
trade" |
| President
and Chairman of Soros Fund Mangement, George
Soros |
5
September 2000
Speech at the State of the World Forum 2000
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" From the point of view of
international law, the World Trade Organization is perhaps
the most advanced of our international institutions because
it has binding judicial power. The NGOs that protested in
Seattle did have a valid point about the WTO: its rules pay
no attention whatsoever to important issues like the
protection of the environment or labor standards. But the
solution to this problem is not to destroy the WTO but to
establish similarly binding rules regarding these issues.
" |
| Singapore
Ministerial Declaration |
13
December 1996 |
" We renew
our commitment to the observance of internationally recognized
core labour standards. The International Labour Organization (ILO)
is the competent body to set and deal with these standards, and we
affirm our support for its work in promoting them. We believe that
economic growth and development fostered by increased trade and
further trade liberalization contribute to the promotion of these
standards. We reject the use of labour standards for protectionist
purposes, and agree that the comparative advantage of countries,
particularly low-wage developing countries, must in no way be put
into question. In this regard, we note that the WTO and ILO
Secretariats will continue their existing
collaboration." |
| Former
Director General of the WTO, Renato Ruggiero |
13
December 1996
Address to the Singapore Ministerial Conference |
" And it
should be a reaffirmation that, since a basic purpose of our
efforts is to raise living standards worldwide, trade
liberalization helps create a more favourable climate for he
observance of core labour standards." |
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