The latest issue of Oxford Development Studies is a special issue on '"Rising Powers" and Labour and Environmental Standards: Challenges to the Global Governance of Consumption, Production and Trade'.

ODS 42.2, June 2014, which was guest edited by Khalid Nadvi of the University of Manchester, includes the following articles:

• Khalid Nadvi, ‘Rising Powers’ and Labour and Environmental Standards
• Alejandro Guarín and Peter Knorringa, New Middle-class Consumers in Rising Powers: Responsible Consumption and Private Standards
• Clara Brandi, Low-Carbon Standards and Labels in China
• Salo V. Coslovsky, Flying Under the Radar? The State and the Enforcement of Labour Laws in Brazil
• Alejandro Milcíades Peña, Rising Powers, Rising Networks: Brazilian Actors in Private Governance
• Alessandra Mezzadri, Indian Garment Clusters and CSR Norms: Incompatible Agendas at the Bottom of the Garment Commodity Chain
• Jeroen Merk, The Rise of Tier 1 Firms in the Global Garment Industry: Challenges for Labour Rights Advocates
• Dev Nathan and Sandip Sarkar, Global Inequality, Rising Powers and Labour Standards

ODS is edited at ODID and published by Taylor and Francis.

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