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Does Globalization Cause a Higher Concentration of International Trade and Investment Flows?

World Trade Organization - 1998

It has sometimes been argued that "globalization" benefits only a small number of countries, and that this leads to … greater marginalization of excluded countries. This paper argues that globalization is not necessarily biased towards greater …, marginalization is not intrinsic to globalization. Key Words: Globalization, international trade and investment flows concentration. …

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Services Liberalization from a WTO/GATS Perspective: In Search of Volunteers

World Trade Organization - 2009

There has been virtually no liberalization under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) to date. Most existing commitments are confined to guaranteeing the levels of access that existed in the mid-1990s, when the Agreement entered into force, in a limited number of sectors. The only...

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Reform in Basic Telecommunications and the WTO Negotiations : The Asian Experience

World Trade Organization - 1998

This paper examines liberalization of the basic telecommunications sector in a number of Asian countries and the role of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) in this process. It begins by explaining the working of the GATS as a mechanism for multilateral liberalization efforts. It...

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Financial Services and the WTO : Liberalization in the Developing and Transition Economies

World Trade Organization - 1998

(GATS) at the World Trade Organization (WTO). It shows that the negotiations have contributed to more stable and transparent …

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Why are Trade Agreements more Attractive in the Presence of Foreign Direct Investment?

World Trade Organization - 1998

This paper argues that interests of nationals and owners of home-based foreign capital in the formation of a Trade Agreements (TA) are not antagonistic, except under rather particular assumptions on initial tariffs among potential members. Further, if initial tariffs are endogenously determined...

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Trade and foreign direct investment : new report by the WTO

In: World trade and arbitration materials 8 (1996) 6, pp. 37-100

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A Multilateral Agreement on Investment : Convincing the Sceptics

World Trade Organization - 1998

Much has been recently written about the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) that has been negotiated by OECD countries. Perhaps even more has been said by the critics of those who would like to see an agreement of this kind extended among other countries. There has indeed been a great...

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