| 11. | Many developing countries express their concern that labour standards will have a deleterious effect on their economy.
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| 12. | Some of these protect core labour standards.
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| 13. | Associated with the development of successful international labour standards is proper monitoring and enforcement of labour standards.
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| 14. | Thirdly, poor labour standards are usually rooted in poverty and this is not something that sanctions can solve.
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| 15. | Because sanctions only apply to exported goods, abuse of core labour standards can occur domestically with few legal repercussions.
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| 16. | An explicit reference to core labour standards could allow comparable action where a WTO member state breaches ILO standards.
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| 17. | However, Patterson subscribed to the conventional wisdom of the day that deficit spending would ruin the province's labour standards.
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| 18. | :: Maybe not too helpful, but each province has a " Labour Standards Act " that defines things like that.
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| 19. | Consequently, this model, as demonstrated by the EC, is a viable one for establishing labour standards on a cross-national basis.
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| 20. | National agencies generally report on domestic compliance of international labour standards while NGOs are much more diverse in their scope.
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