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This paper analyses the results of the financial services negotiations under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) at the World Trade Organization (WTO). It shows that the negotiations have contributed to more stable and transparent policy regimes in many developing and transition...
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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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Trade has always been shaped by technology but the rapid development of digital technologies in recent times has the potential to transform international trade profoundly in the years to come. The World Trade Report 2018 examines how digital technologies – and in particular the Internet of...
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level in India. We focus on the time period 1987 to 1999 and three services sectors - banking, insurance and …
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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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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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the controversy about globalization that calls for the capital account liberalization introduces, therefore, a relatively …
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