Developing Countries and Preferential Services trade

Sieber-Gasser, Charlotte

Developing Countries and Preferential Services trade - United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2016. - xxx, 328p.

WTO sets the global minimum standards for trade regulation, while allowing some regulatory flexibility for developing countries. The exact scope of regulatory flexibility is often unclear, and, at time, flexibility may be counterproductive to sustainable economic growth in developing countries.

978-1-107-14756-0


Foundations
Special and Differential Treatment in the WTO
The Rationale for south-south Services Trade
The Quest of this Study
Preferential Services Trade
History and Geography of Preferential Services trade
Stock-taking of Preferential Services trade Agreements
The current level of Liberalism
Legal Regime for Preferential Services Trade
Historical background of Preferentialism in Services Trade and its Regulation
GATS Art. V
Regulatory Flexibilities in the GATS
Legal Regime for South-South Preferential Services trade
The Legal Scope of Flexibilities for South-South Preferential Services Trade
Legal Arguments for a Large Scope Flexibilities in the GATS
New Approach to a Better Use of the Scope of Flexibilities

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