TY - BOOK AU - Sieber-Gasser, Charlotte TI - Developing Countries and Preferential Services trade SN - 978-1-107-14756-0 U1 - 346.58 PY - 2016/// CY - United Kingdom PB - Cambridge University Press, KW - Foundations KW - Special and Differential Treatment in the WTO KW - The Rationale for south-south Services Trade KW - The Quest of this Study KW - Preferential Services Trade KW - History and Geography of Preferential Services trade KW - Stock-taking of Preferential Services trade Agreements KW - The current level of Liberalism KW - Legal Regime for Preferential Services Trade KW - Historical background of Preferentialism in Services Trade and its Regulation KW - GATS Art. V KW - Regulatory Flexibilities in the GATS KW - Legal Regime for South-South Preferential Services trade KW - The Legal Scope of Flexibilities for South-South Preferential Services Trade KW - Legal Arguments for a Large Scope Flexibilities in the GATS KW - New Approach to a Better Use of the Scope of Flexibilities N2 - 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 ER -