WTO Domestic Regulation and Services Trade (eBook, ePUB)

Putting Principles into Practice
Redaktion: Lim, Aik Hoe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Domestic regulation of services sectors has a significant impact on services trade liberalization, which is why General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) disciplines are negotiated in the WTO. With the help of analyses and case-studies from academics, regulators and trade experts, this book explores the scope and limits of WTO legal principles to promote domestic regulatory reform. Case-studies discuss country-specific challenges and experiences of regulating important service sectors, such as finance, telecommunications, distribution, legal, education, health, postal and logistics services, as well as the role of regulatory impact assessments. The findings will interest trade officials, policy-makers, regulators, think tanks and businesses concerned with the implications of domestic regulation on access to services markets, and with the opportunities for formulating trade disciplines in this area. It is also a useful resource for academics and students researching regulatory approaches and practices in services sectors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139905565
• Artikelnr.: 52923267

Inhaltsangabe

1. An introduction to domestic regulation and GATS Aik Hoe Lim and Bart De
Meester; Part I. Impediments to Services Trade, Regulatory Theory and
Principles: 2. Why regulate? An overview of the rationale and purpose
behind regulation Tinne Heremans; 3. Domestic regulation: what are the
costs and benefits for international trade in services? Hildegunn Kyvik
Nordås; Part II. Legal Perspectives on WTO Principles and Domestic
Regulations: 4. Reasonableness, impartiality and objectivity Andrew
Mitchell and Tania Voon; 5. Balancing legal certainty with regulatory
flexibility Markus Krajewski; 6. Who's afraid of necessity? And why it
matters? Panagiotis Delimatsis; 7. Mutual recognition of services
regulation at the WTO Joel P. Trachtman; Part III. Case-studies: 8. Legal
services in the United States Erica Moeser and Laurel Terry; 9.
Telecommunications reform in China: fostering competition through state
intervention Henry Gao; 10. Information communication technology: the
Mauritian experience of regulation and reform Krishna Oolun; 11. Regulation
of postal services in a changing market environment: lessons from Australia
and elsewhere Siva Somasundram and Iain Sandford; 12. Mobile money services
provision in East Africa: the Ugandan experience Joan Apecu, Irene Kaggwa
Sewankambo and Yusuf Atiku Abdalla; 13. Financial services liberalization
and regulation in Japan: implications for future negotiation on market
access and domestic regulations Masamichi Kono, Koichi Iwai and Yoshitaka
Sakai; 14. Domestic regulations in Malaysia's higher education sector Tham
Siew Yean and Nik Ahmad Kamal Nik Mahmod; 15. Domestic regulations and
India's trade in health services: a study of hospital and telemedicine
services Rupa Chanda and Pralok Gupta; 16. Operating integrated logistics
services in a fragmented regulatory environment: what is the cost? Ruosi
Zhang; 17. Domestic regulation of retail food distribution services in
Israel: the missing link between food prices and social protest Tomer
Broude and Lior Herman; 18. Regulatory impact analysis Darrell Porter and
Lauren Wight; Part IV. Concluding Remarks: 19. Services liberalization,
negotiations and regulation: some lessons from the GATS experience Hamid
Mamdouh; 20. Addressing the domestic regulation and services trade
interface: reflections on the way ahead Aik Hoe Lim and Bart De Meester.