Improving regulatory capacity to manage risks associated with trade agreements
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Walls, Helen L.; Smith, Richard D.; Drahos, Peter
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Modern trade negotiations have delivered a plethora of bilateral and regional preferential trade agreements (PTAs), which involve considerable risk to public health, thus placing demands on governments to strengthen administrative regulatory capacities in regard to the negotiation, implementation and on-going management of PTAs. In terms of risk management, the administrative regulatory capacity requisite for appropriate negotiation of PTAs is different to that for the implementation or...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | Walls, Helen L. | |
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dc.contributor.author | Smith, Richard D. | |
dc.contributor.author | Drahos, Peter | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-05-14T00:41:54Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-05-14T00:41:54Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1744-8603 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/13484 | |
dc.description.abstract | Modern trade negotiations have delivered a plethora of bilateral and regional preferential trade agreements (PTAs), which involve considerable risk to public health, thus placing demands on governments to strengthen administrative regulatory capacities in regard to the negotiation, implementation and on-going management of PTAs. In terms of risk management, the administrative regulatory capacity requisite for appropriate negotiation of PTAs is different to that for the implementation or on-going management of PTAs, but at all stages the capacity needed is expensive, skill-intensive and requires considerable infrastructure, which smaller and poorer states especially struggle to find. It is also a task generally underestimated. If states do not find ways to increase their capacities then PTAs are likely to become much greater drivers of health inequities. Developing countries especially struggle to find this capacity. In this article we set out the importance of administrative regulatory capacity and coordination to manage the risks to public health associated with PTAs, and suggest ways countries can improve their capacity. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | The first author was funded by a Sidney Sax Public Health Fellowship from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (APP1037460). | |
dc.format | 5 pages | |
dc.publisher | BioMed Central | |
dc.rights | © 2015 Walls et al.; licensee BioMed Central. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. | |
dc.source | Globalization and Health | |
dc.title | Improving regulatory capacity to manage risks associated with trade agreements | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 11 | |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2015-03-05 | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-03-21 | |
local.identifier.absfor | 111700 - PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH SERVICES | |
local.identifier.absfor | 180100 - LAW | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | a383154xPUB2997 | |
local.publisher.url | http://www.biomedcentral.com/ | |
local.type.status | Published Version | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Walls, H. L., National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health, The Australian National University | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Drahos, P., Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet), College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University | |
dc.relation | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1037460 | |
local.identifier.essn | 1744-8603 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.issue | 1 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 14 | |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1186/s12992-015-0099-7 | |
dc.date.updated | 2015-12-11T07:50:24Z | |
local.identifier.scopusID | 2-s2.0-84925684354 | |
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