Opening Markets for Trade in Services : Countries and Sectors in Bilateral and WTO Negotiations
Juan A. Marchetti
Bok Engelsk 2008 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2008
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (786 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; OPENING MARKETS FOR TRADE IN SERVICES; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; FIGURES; TABLES; BOXES; CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; DISCLAIMER; SUMMARY AND OVERVIEW; 1 From policy to negotiations; 2 Multilateral and bilateral negotiations on services: Overall perspectives; 3 Challenges, issues and opportunities in services sectors; 4 Country experiences with services trade; 5 Final comments; PART I: From Policy to Negotiations; 1 Services trade and growth; 1 Services and growth; 2 Global trade trends; 3 Impacts of services trade liberalization; 3.1 Empirical evidence. - 2 Services liberalization in the WTO and in PTAs1 Multilateral liberalization of trade in services: achievements and challenges1; 1.1 Existing commitments under the GATS; 1.2 Offers10; 2 Where the action is? Services in PTAs; 2.1 The recent surge of services PTAs; 2.2 Key features of services PTAs; 3 An assessment of market access commitments achieved in PTAs; 3.1 Methodology; 3.2 Results; 3.2.1 Country by country; 3.2.2 Agreement by agreement; 3.2.3 Sector by sector; 4 Implications of PTAs for the multilateral trading system; 4.1 Political economy factors. - 3.2 Scope of market access commitments. - 3.2 Sectoral analyses3.2.1 Financial services; 3.2.2 Transport, communications, and distribution services; 3.2.3 CGE analyses; 4 Policy implications; 4.1 Determinants of comparative advantage; 4.2 Designing domestic services reforms; 4.2.1 Sequencing of liberalization; 4.2.2 Efficient regulation: making competition work; 4.2.2.1 Dealing with anti-competitive practices; 4.2.2.2 Regulation to remedy inadequate consumer information; 4.2.2.3 Regulation to widen access to services; 5 Conclusion; Bibliography; PART II: Multilateral and Bilateral Negotiations on Services:Overall Perspectives. - 3.3 Strategic behavior and non-party MFN clauses4 Friends or foes of the WTO?; 5 Concluding remarks; Bibliography; PART III: Challenges, Issues and Opportunities in Services Sectors; 4 Telecommunications: can trade agreements keep up with technology?; 1 Evolution of the sector: growth and transformation; 2 Trade and regulatory trends: liberalization as the policy of choice; 2.1 Telecoms negotiations pre-Doha; 2.2 Negotiations in the Doha Round; 2.2.1 Hong Kong Ministerial; 2.2.2 Plurilateral requests; 3 Market opening achieved in PTAs; 3.1 Market access developments. - 4.2 Trade distortion and economic implications4.3 The role of rules of origin; 4.4 The role of MFN clauses in PTAs; 5 Conclusion: betting on the WTO; Annex; Bibliography; 3 PTAs in services: friends or foes of the multilateral trading system?; 1 Salient features of services PTAs; 2 Explaining key features of services PTAs; 2.1 Why may governments opt for non-discriminatoryimplementation of their PTA commitments?; 2.2 Why do most PTAs opt for liberal rules of origin?; 3 Reciprocal bargaining; 3.1 The puzzle of "leaky" PTAs; 3.2 Some explanations. - This volume of essays explores the state of services liberalization and the regulation of international trade in services.
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| Emner | World Trade Organization : (NO-TrBIB)90820455
International trade. Service industries. Business & Economics Vis mer... |
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| ISBN | 9780521516044. - 9780521735919
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