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The relationship between services trade and government procurement commitments : insights from relevant WTO agreements and recent RTAs
Anderson, Robert D.; Locatelli, Claudia; Müller, Anna … - 2014 - Manuscript date: 24 October, 2014
Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), it derives insights from a large number of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) that embody …: the key provisions regarding the scope of application of the GATS and the GPA make clear that each serves purposes that … reflection, several related options: (i) the built-in mandate in the GATS for negotiations on services procurement (Article XIII …
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Means of liberalization and beyond : understanding scheduling approaches in services trade agreements
Zhang, Ruosi; Chuwankorn Sasanabanchakul - 2022 - Manuscript date: 29 June 2022
liberalization. This paper provides an overview of the scheduling approaches adopted in 187 trade agreements notified under GATS …
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The Tisa initiative : an overview of market access issues
Marchetti, Juan A.; Roy, Martin - 2013 - Manuscript date: November 27, 2013
agreements (PTAs) - a reasonable starting point - 'TISA market access commitments would go well beyond GATS commitments and …
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Regulatory disciplines on the mobility of service professionals : lessons from Regional Trade Agreements
Carzaniga, Antonia Giulia; Sharma, Swati - 2022 - Manuscript date: 15 July 2022
(RTAs) have increasingly adopted trade-facilitating disciplines that both build upon and innovate the GATS framework. By …
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How to design trade agreements in services : top down or bottom up?
Adlung, Rudolf; Mamdouh, Hamid - 2013 - Manuscript date: 18 June 2013
Trade in Services (GATS) have prevented WTO Members from advancing services liberalization under the Agreement. The GATS is …
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The GATS turns ten : a preliminary stocktaking
Adlung, Rudolf - 2004 - Manuscript date: August 2004
Services (GATS), some ten years after its entry into force. One striking observation is the smooth functioning of the Agreement … GATS, there should be no illusion about the scope for technical solutions to what constitutes a political and institutional …
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Developing countries in the WTO services negotiations
Marchetti, Juan A. - 2004 - Manuscript date: September 2004
The aim of this paper is to analyse developing countries' participation so far in the current round of services negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda. The paper analyses developing countries' negotiating positions, as evidenced by their multilateral negotiating proposals; their initial...
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Elevating services : services trade policy, WTO commitments, and their role in economic development and trade integration
Roy, Martin - 2019 - Manuscript date: March 2019
Services have long been perceived as playing a secondary role in world trade. In particular, the role of services trade policies and multilateral services commitments often tends to be downplayed. However, in value added terms, services account for about 50% of world trade and are significant in...
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Services liberalization from a WTO/GATS perspective : in search of volunteers
Adlung, Rudolf - 2009
a safer footing, and to improve compliance with long-existing information/notification obligations. -- GATS ; trade in …
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The contribution of services liberalization to poverty reduction : what role for the GATS?
Adlung, Rudolf (contributor) - 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...
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