In the body of the literature, it is celebrated that human well-being becomes the key subject in measuring the economic development. The purpose of this study is to classify the countries with respect to their standard of living on the basis of economic growth, health, education and quality of...

The WTO, through its Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Agreement as well as its Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Agreement encourages member states to set up a framework of maintaining nutritional standards. It is pertinent to mention here that the since these agreements do not specifically...

This paper examines how strategic alliances to create and use standards affect economic growth and development. The explanation of the link from standards to economic growth and development is through the effects of standards on the incentives to perform industrial research and development...

Consumers have increasing demands for product standards. This has important implications for development. While there has been increasing attention to empirical work in this area, it is often grounded in a poor conceptual base. To overcome this shortcoming, this paper develops a formal theory of...

China has been participating in the international standards activities since the reform and opening up period. China’s standards action has not only brought about significant changes in the way of international trade, but also changed the connotation and manifestation of economic growth, which...