Improving workers rights in globalising economies : assessment of labour provisions in trade and investment arrangements

The research project aims at examining the extent to which existing international economic governance arrangements are effective in ensuring the parallelism between the economic and social dimensions of globalisation. In this respect, the project examines the extent to which existing international trade and investment arrangements can help to ensure this parallelism, as well as ascertain the means of action of the ILO in order to improve the coherence between these arrangements and its labour standards and supervisory mechanism. The objective of the project will mainly be achieved through in-depth research activities regarding the effects of labour provisions in trade and investment arrangements, using established methodologies of legal and economic analysis like natural experiments. This research will be accompanied and guided through an advisory committee and will be discussed in tripartite expert workshops in order to ensure the quality of the research. The findings of the research will be disseminated through an international conference at the end of the project.

Project symbol

GLO/12/48/SWI

Admin unit

INST

Start date

01/03/2013

End date

30/06/2016

Total allocation

107437

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

73089

Development Partners

Switzerland, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs

Country/Countries

Global

Outcomes

More and better jobs for inclusive growth and improved youth employment prospects