services notified to the World Trade Organization (WTO) under Article V of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS …), as of June 2011. This paper discusses how RTAs support or debilitate the GATS in its governance function as the keeper of …

services notified to the World Trade Organization (WTO) under Article V of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS …), as of June 2011. This paper discusses how RTAs support or debilitate the GATS in its governance function as the keeper of …

The World Trade Organization's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) sets out a framework and rules for the … liberalization of international trade in services. Paragraph 2(a) of the GATS Annex on Financial Services is generally known as the … Prudential Carve-Out (PCO). Notwithstanding GATS obligations, it allows WTO Members to pursue prudential regulatory objectives …

This paper reviews the Philippines' participation in services trade agreements to date at the multilateral (WTO GATS …

treatment of labour mobility under GATS is not conducive to an optimal global governance of migration; d) when examing likeness …

of the GATS. Negotiations in the Working Group on Domestic Regulation have produced a considerable level of consensus in … force of the GATS. This raises the question of whether and to what extent such PTAs have developed any further disciplines … on domestic regulation and whether such disciplines could be used as a model for the GATS. Initial research suggests that …