Global Labor Standards and Living Wages Working Group Meeting

April 19-20, 2002

Conference Program

Elissa Braunstein (PERI), "Gender, FDI and women's autonomy: a research note on empirical analysis"

Mark Brenner (PERI), "Defining and measuring living wages in a global context"

Peter Gibbon (Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen), "At the cutting edge? UK clothing retailers global sourcing patterns and practices and their implications for developing countries"

James Heintz (PERI), "Low-wage exports, job creation, and global inequalities"

Thomas Hertz (Princeton University), "Forecasting the effects of pending minimum wage legislation on poverty in South Africa"

Selim Jahan (UNDP), "Measuring living standards and poverty: the Human Development Index as an alternate measure"

Robert Pollin (PERI and University of Massachusetts), "The anti-sweat shop movement: good intentions and economic logic in conflict?"

Stephanie Seguino (University of Vermont), "Promoting gender equality through labor standards and living wages: an exploration of the issues"

Ajit Singh (Cambridge University) and Ann Zammit (UNRISD), "The global labor standards controversy: critical issues for developing countries"