essential role of services for economic development; the high costs imposed by trade protection; the benefits of liberalization …; the need to make use of the WTO forum to enhance credibility and sustain domestic regulatory reform programmes; the …

agreements (PTAs) - a reasonable starting point - 'TISA market access commitments would go well beyond GATS commitments and …-à-vis the WTO framework. …

century. Secondly, in one area of economic activity - trade in government procurement markets - the revised WTO Agreement on …

To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This … addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements, particularly the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) and the General … Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), it derives insights from a large number of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) that embody …

(GATS) at the World Trade Organization (WTO). It shows that the negotiations have contributed to more stable and transparent …-discrimination commitments should advance the process of progressive liberalization. The commitments do not compromise the ability of countries … of competition was not deemed feasible, not much advantage has been taken of the GATS to lend credibility to …

essential role of services for economic development; the high costs imposed by trade protection; the benefits of liberalization …; the need to make use of the WTO forum to enhance credibility and sustain domestic regulatory reform programmes; the …

We explore the impact of multilateral liberalization, with emphasison distributional effects across countries. We first … develop a realistic base1ine that takes into account events such as the entry of China into the WTO and the enlargement of the … EU, allowing us to focus on those effects that are specifically attributable to further trade liberalization in the Doha …