Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), has been widely advocated as a means of increasing private sector participation in the … autonomy and GATS liberalisation in water services. The empirical evidence on the impact of private sector involvement in the …

respective markets. At the same time, the GATS accommodates a range of measures, including the use of quantitative restrictions … seeks to provide an overview and assessment in the light of relevant GATS provisions and WTO dispute rulings. …

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 …

This paper is concerned with three problems in the interpretation of the national treatment obligation in GATS. First … commitment may undermine the key GATS objective of creating a secure, predictable trading environment. Moreover, the extent of … liberalization implied by the commitments under GATS depends on the precise choice of interpretation. …