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Trade Liberalization And Sustainable Development

Posted on:2007-09-14Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z Z XuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1116360182991402Subject:International Law
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State clearly in the preface of WTO,"Recognizing that their relations in the field of trade and economic endeavor should be conducted with a view to raising standards of living, ensuring full employment and a large and steadily growing volume of real income and effective demand, and expanding the production of and trade in goods and services, while allowing for the optimal use of the world's resources in accordance with the objective of sustainable development, seeking both to protect and preserve the environment and to enhance the means for doing so in a manner consistent with their respective needs and concerns at different levels of economic development", this make sustainable development become one important topic of free trade.The liberalization of trade favors all the parties of international community in theory; it is used to solve the good recipe of the poverty by the international institutions, scholars and experts. But, in the result of economic operation of globalization, it is unfavorable to the parties whose economics belong to the weak (the countries or natural persons) instead. How would the trade achieve the goal of sustainable development?According to Bruntland Report"Our Common Future", the definition of Sustainable Development is:"Sustainable development seeks to meet the needs and aspirations of the present without compromising the ability to meet those of the future". It includes two important concepts: One is a concept"need"; the other is a concept"limit". The content of sustainable development is still uncertain that make to meet the needs of present and the need of future, become a relative concept. So, we can only do a dynamic definition of sustainable development, it is unable to make static definition. Secondly, the concept of sustainable development is the response of the international communities to face the conflicts of environment and development for a long time. Confront the conflict of the environment and development, we can keep developing and giving consideration of the sustainable development of ecological environment, make the position of mediating the environment and development gradually. Sustainable development becomes a model of development that the most people agree with. The directions of sustainable development, including: 1.Economy grows up fair; 2. Protect natural resources and environmental; 3. Humane society can sustain; 4.
Keywords/Search Tags:sustainable development, sustainable trade, fair trade, trade liberalization, social justice, trade and environment, PPMs, environmental standards, eco-labels, environmental goods and service, conflict between WTO rules and MEAs rules
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