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Trade is controversial; around the world many people believe that trade agreements, even trade per se, undermines particular human rights such as labor rights or access to affordable medicine (the right to health). But trade and trade agreements can also advance human rights, directly or indirectly. In fact, some countries use trade policies to advance specific human rights such as labor rights or property rights.

Nonetheless, policymakers struggle to achieve both goals because:

Selected reviews of The Divided Welfare State are featured below:

Monday, October 14, 2002 The passing of the welfare state is a subject in dire need of serious thinking, and two impressive books devote themselves to the task. Jacob S. Hacker, a young political scientist, has turned his doctoral dissertation into an ambitious theoretical enterprise designed to explain why the American welfare state developed the way it did. Neil Gilbert, a professor of social welfare… more