Labor Standards and Trade Sanctions: Right End Wrong Means

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(Forthcoming in Devashish Mitra and Rana Hasan, ed., volume to be published by North Holland). The paper recognizes the importance of promoting higher labor standards faster but rejects the idea of linking them with market access via the WTO instrumentality.  It then considers alternative instruments such as ILO, socio-labels, education and trade liberalization.