Globalization and the growth of outsourcing and offshoring are challenging international trade regulations. This paper … asserts that current WTO/GATS framework suffers from several weaknesses including an inadequate classification method … paper suggests amending the current GATS classification method from a positive-list approach to a negative-list approach …

Modeling the offshoring of white-collar services : from comparative advantage to the new theories of trade and foreign … direct investment / James R. Markusen -- Service offshoring : threats and opportunities / Daniel Trefler -- Tradable services … : understanding the scope and impact of services offshoring / J. Bradford Jensen, Lori G. Kletzer -- Trends in employment at U …

to off-shoring of business services such as software program development and international call centre networks. Although …