11. Many developing countries express their concern that labour standards will have a deleterious effect on their economy. 12. Some of these protect core labour standards . 13. Associated with the development of successful international labour standards is proper monitoring and enforcement of labour standards . 14. Thirdly, poor labour standards are usually rooted in poverty and this is not something that sanctions can solve. 15. Because sanctions only apply to exported goods, abuse of core labour standards can occur domestically with few legal repercussions. 16. An explicit reference to core labour standards could allow comparable action where a WTO member state breaches ILO standards. 17. However, Patterson subscribed to the conventional wisdom of the day that deficit spending would ruin the province's labour standards . 18. :: Maybe not too helpful, but each province has a " Labour Standards Act " that defines things like that. 19. Consequently, this model, as demonstrated by the EC, is a viable one for establishing labour standards on a cross-national basis. 20. National agencies generally report on domestic compliance of international labour standards while NGOs are much more diverse in their scope.
