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The Preferential Liberalization of Trade in Services - Comparative Regionalism (Hardcover)
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The Preferential Liberalization of Trade in Services - Comparative Regionalism (Hardcover)
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Services account for three quarters of GDP in many countries but
less than a quarter of global trade. This insightful volume
assesses recent evidence on services trade barriers, the extent to
which preferential trade agreements liberalize trade in services
and whether such liberalization benefits only participants or
extends to non-member countries. It provides an excellent overview
of the state of knowledge in this important area, as well as a
number of detailed case studies of recent trade agreements that
include services.' - Bernard Hoekman, European University
Institute, Italy'Sky-high barriers to services trade are the
foremost obstacle confronting 21st century trade ministers and
create a major impediment to global growth. Ministers have made
commendable progress in several regional trade agreements but not
much in the World Trade Organization. This volume charts the
terrain and provides an essential guide to the achievements and
shortcomings of preferential liberalization.' - Gary Clyde
Hufbauer, Peterson Institute for International Economics, US This
book fills an important gap in the trade literature by offering a
comprehensive cross-regional comparison of approaches to
preferential market opening and rule-making in the area of trade in
services. Chronicling the spectacular recent rise of preferential
trade agreements (PTAs) in services and with contributions from
some of the world's leading experts, the book examines the forces
shaping the demand for preferences in services trade. It asks
whether and how preferential advances differ from, go further than,
and might ultimately inform the development of multilateral
disciplines on services under the World Trade Organization's (WTO)
General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). The book's core
focus is on comparative scholarship, directing attention to the
substantive features of services PTAs around the globe and
exploring the iterative nature of rule-making and market opening in
a still nascent field of trade diplomacy. It advances a number of
ideas on how to multilateralize PTA advances in services and takes
stock of the likely impact on the WTO system of ongoing attempts at
crafting a plurilateral agreement on trade in services. Trade
negotiators and policy officials working in the field of trade and
investment in services as well as academics in the fields of law,
economics and international political economy will find much of use
in this authoritative study. Contributors: S. Abeysinghe, M.
Bosworth, R. Chanda, A. Mattoo, M. Robert, M. Roy, P. Sauve, S.
Stephenson, I. Streho, R. Trewin, N. Ward
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