WTO, labor standards, and developing countries

[Brad De Long]

>The media have been full of abuse for the Seattle protests. One of their
>favorite debating points has been to claim that the developing countries
>adore the WTO, and fear only that perfidious Northern unions will impose
>labor standards. This of course ignores that the Third World unions and
>development groups have fiercely opposed the WTO agenda accross the board --
>intellectual property rights, investment policy, competition, agriculture,
>government procurement, etc.

Intellectual property rights yes, agriculture no... It's more 
complicated than that, as you know.

Brad DeLong