GATS 2000: New Directions in Services Trade Liberalization

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Pierre Sauvé, Robert M. Stern
Brookings Institution Press, Dec 1, 2010 - Political Science - 636 pages

With the negotiation of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), the policies affecting access to, and conditions of competition in, service markets are today firmly rooted in the multilateral trading system. Written with policymakers and practitioners in mind, the essays in this volume address some of the most pressing questions arising in services trade today—some of which were not addressed by the first generation of GATS negotiators.

 

Contents

New Directions in Services Trade Liberalization An Overview
Assessing Trade in Services by Mode of Supply
31
Measuring Impediments to Trade in Services
55
Assessing and Improving the Architecture of GATS
83
Services Trade Liberalization from Developed and Developing Country Perspectives
110
Comment by Bernard M Hoekman
130
Comment by Patrick Low
134
Government Procurement of Services and Multilateral Disciplines
141
Comment by Aaditya Mattoo
315
Comment by Peter Morrison
320
Investment Liberalization in GATS
329
Competition Policy and GATS
362
Global Electronic Commerce and GATS The Millennium Round and Beyond
397
Comment by Merit E Janow
436
Comment by Jeffrey J Schott
440
Is There a Better Way? Alternative Approaches to Liberalization under GATS
447

Deja Vu or New Beginning for Safeguards and Subsidies Rules in Services Trade?
163
Where Next for Labor Mobility under GATS?
182
Comment by Malcolm Bosworth
209
Comment by Ken A Richeson
216
Regulatory Reform and Trade Liberalization in Services
223
From Policed Regulation to Managed Recognition in GATS
239
Market Access through Mutual Recognition The Promise and Limits of GATS Article VII
281
Comment by Robert Howse
305
Formula Approaches to Improving GATS Commitments
471
Liberalizing Trade in Services Reciprocal Negotiations and Regulatory Reform
485
GATS and Regional Integration
507
Comment by Juan A Marchetti
528
Comment by Michel Servoz
533
Comment by Toru Aizawa
537
Contributors
539
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About the author (2010)

Pierre Sauvé is head of the Trade Policy Linkages Division of the OECD Trade Directorate in Paris. Robert M. Stern is professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan.

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