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"This paper seeks to identify trends in rights at work during the global financial and economic crisis that began in 2008, in terms of international labour standards. Its primary sources of information use recent observations of the International Labour Organisation's Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR) relating to the crisis, as well as data collected in the ILO/World Bank inventory standardized questionnaire of policy responses to the crisis on a sample of 50 countries covering the period mid-2008 - mid-2010."

"While the linking of trade liberalization with protection of workers' rights remains controversial, the practice of including labour clauses in free trade agreements is gaining currency. Reviewing wider efforts to promote labour standards and – in fine – the economic and other arguments for doing so, the authors examine the labour clauses contained in recent trade argeements, focusing on their effectiveness in protecting internationally recognized workers' rights. Some agreements offer promising avenues for promoting these rights (e.g. trade incentives, capacity building) but their principal weakness lies in supervision, particularly in countries that have not ratified the relevant ILO Conventions."