burdens remain across jurisdictions include - some regulatory requirements in excess of national standards; slow progress in … developing national standards under the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code for primary production and processing …

Standards (IFRS). The introduction of a uniform accounting system is expected to ensure greater comparability and transparency … adoption of IFRS standards on the accounting treatment of intangible assets. In a first part, we examine and compare the … include 83% of the companies selected. For most of them, the implementation of international standards does not imply any …

The establishment of international labor standards linked to market access within the WTO is among the proposals … (December 1996), while acknowledging the importance of international labor standards, identified the International Labor … Organization (ILO) as the competent body to establish and monitor labor standards. However, advocates for international labor …

In this paper we investigate the interrelationships between trade and national minimum quality standards. We employ a … prefer a lower standard to the latter. Because producers are organised and consumers are not, the standards set by national … interests affects the outcomes in autarky and the open economy; and, second, how outcomes differ when the effects of standards …

Using a variety of data sources, the contributors explore how performance standards and incentives affect the behavior …