Category Archives: GATS

SMEs in Services Trade – A GATS Perspective

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Gopakumar

by Rudolf Adlung and Marta Soprana WTO Staff Working Paper ERSD-2012-09, April 2012 Issues related to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) supplying services have been raised at earlier stages of the Doha Round in various negotiating contexts and, more recently, … Continue reading →

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The International Regulatory Regime on Capital Flows and Trade in Services

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Gopakumar

by Federico Lupo Pasini ADBI WP No.338, December, 2011 Capital controls and exchange restrictions are used to restrict international capital flows during economic crises. This paper looks at the legal implications of these restrictions and explores the current international regulatory … Continue reading →

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GATT/WTO membership does promote international trade after all – Some new Empirical Evidence

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Gopakumar

by Laszlo Konya, Laszlo Matyas  and Mark Harris    MPRA Paper No. 34978, November 2011   The declared objective of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade(GATT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) is to promote free trade between member states. … Continue reading →

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Services Commitments in Preferential Trade Agreements:An Expanded Dataset

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Gopakumar

by Martin Roy Staff Working Paper ERSD-2011-18 Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) on services have proliferated since 2000. This working paper briefly presents the expansion of the dataset initially developed in Marchetti and Roy (2008). The data permits to assess the … Continue reading →

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WTO Decision-Making for the Future

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Gopakumar

by  Patrick Low Working Paper ERSD-2011-05 Decision making in the WTO has become ever more difficult as the number of members increases and the range of issues tackled broadens. This paper looks at reasons why aspects of decision-making might be … Continue reading →

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FOG IN GATS COMMITMENTS – BOON OR BANE?

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Gopakumar

by Rudolf Adlung, Peter Morrison, Martin Roy, Weiwei Zhang Working Paper ERSD-2011-04 The creation of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), in the Uruguay Round, and its entry into force in 1995 marked a new stage in the … Continue reading →

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