The impact of food safety standards on international trade has already been addressed. Generally, economists try to …

The debate on trade and poverty is reinforced by recent studies on the role of standards. It is argued that increasing … standards act as trade barriers for developing countries and cause further marginalization of the poor. This paper is the first … to quantify income and poverty effects of such high-standards trade and to integrate labor market effects, by using …

Privately initiated food quality standards are currently important elements in the marketing of food and agricultural … farmers in developing countries. This study aims at analysing the adoption of two private food standards, BRC Technical Food …

optima of nutrition and health standards in food markets, and to identify under which cases “understandardization” or “over-standardization …This paper presents a general political economy model of standards. We use the model to derive political and social …

We construct a model to identify determinants of the diffusion rate of standards in a food chain. We argue that … behavior, compliance costs and market structure, all of which influence the adoption of standards, are identified and discussed … rate of standards. The dominance of large-scale holdings in the relevant procurement market significantly increases …