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Market Access: Unfinished Business: Post-Uruguay Round Inventory and Issues
Marc Bacchetta. - eSocialSciences - 2007
Study undertaken by WTO's Economic Research and Analysis Division. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170149
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The Contribution of Services Liberalisation to Poverty Reduction: What Role for the GATS?
Adlung, Rolf - eSocialSciences - 2007
There are various conceivable links between services liberalization and poverty reduction, including the efficiency effects associated with increased competition in intermediate (infrastructural) services, income transfers generated by workers moving abroad, or the mobilization of private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699050
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The Asian “Noodle Bowlâ€:Is It Serious for Business?
Kawai, Masahiro; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - eSocialSciences - 2009
A lively debate is taking place over the impact of free trade agreements (FTAs) on East Asia's business between those who view the agreements as a harmful Asian "noodle bowl"—i.e., overlapping regional trade agreements—of trade deals and others who see net beneficial effects in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045004
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Turning Hills into Mountains?Current Commitments under the GATS and Prospects for Change
Adhung, Rudolf - eSocialSciences - 2005
It has become increasingly clear that the services negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda will not produce significant improvements on current commitments unless major new impetus is provided. In an introductory section, this paper discusses various impediments, from the perspective of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528226
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Chairman’s Introduction to the Draft NAMA Modalities
eSocialSciences; World Trade Organisation WTO - 2008
The introduction of the Chairman to the Draft presented for discussion based upon the 2006 text and to move the negotiations forward by proposing specific outcomes, not rehearsing everyone’s position, and challenging all to compromise.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699019
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Towards NAMA Modalities
eSocialSciences; World Trade Organisation WTO - 2008
Submitted to Trade Negotiations Committee in response to request of members for language of full modalities on non-agricultural market access (NAMA) negotiations. As a result of the failure of the negotiating group to arrive at consensus, this interim report.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699182
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Trade Facilitation: A Brief Negotiating History
Priya, Shashank - eSocialSciences - 2007
This article traces the history of negotiations in the WTO on Trade Facilitation, the only Singapore issue that has … survived beyond Doha and Cancun. Last ten years of sustained work by the negotiators in the WTO has considerably narrowed down … the areas for final agreement. The author, a key negotiator at the WTO negotiations, provides an insider’s view of how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528304
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Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedure for Agreements on Trade Facilitation
Satapathy, C. - eSocialSciences - 2006
rigid and costly dispute settlement procedure in the WTO may encourage developing country members not to shy away from an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699370
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Public Services and GATS
Adlung, Rolf - eSocialSciences - 2005
and/or subsidized private provision - that may be used by WTO Members to meet typical public service objectives. It turns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528335
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Ensuring the Conformity of Domestic Law with World Trade Organisation Law India as a case study
Julien, Chaisse - eSocialSciences - 2009
The 1994 Marrakesh Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization (the WTO Agreement), requires each WTO member to … annexed Agreements.†It is natural for the issue of WTO conformity to be a subject of much attention if it should arise in … the most representative and the only compulsory dispute settlement in the world. It is this conformity that the paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004998004