Whose Trade Organization?: The Comprehensive Guide to the Wto - Softcover

Wallach, Lori; Woodall, Patrick

 
9781565848412: Whose Trade Organization?: The Comprehensive Guide to the Wto
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1565848411 ISBN 13: 9781565848412
Verlag: The New Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Many people are surprised when they first learn that trade is only a small element of the World Trade Organization, but the WTO actually covers a huge array of subjects never before included in trade agreements. The new agreements that were born with the WTO almost nine years ago included 800-plus pages of rules that interfere with food safety standards, environmental laws, social service polices, intellectual property standards, government procurement rules, and more.

Whose Trade Organization? is the definitive guide to the reign of this undemocratic "trade" regime that has sparked protests from Seattle to Quebec to Genoa. With case-by-case studies, the book exposes the lopsided agreements and secret tribunals that are the tools of the WTO's trade, and reveals the aggressive corporate agenda at its core. This myth-busting guide explains cutting-edge conflicts over rainforest destruction, genetically modified foods, sweatshops, lifesaving drugs, and many other global issues. And it offers critical and timely prescriptions for challenging the WTO and building a public-centered, democratic alternative.


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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Lori Wallach is Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, which was created in 1995 to promote government and corporate accountability in the globalization and trade arena.

Patrick Woodall is Research Director at Global Trade Watch.

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Verlag
The New Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1565848411
ISBN 13 
9781565848412
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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