Charlotte Sieber-Gasser

Developing Countries and Preferential Services Trade (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

WTO law 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 times, flexibility may be counterproductive to sustainable economic growth in developing countries. Undisputedly, developing countries would have some flexibility with respect to tailoring preferential services trade agreements to their individual economic needs and circumstances, but empirical data from over 280 preferential services trade agreements worldwide shows that this flexibility is rarely used. This volume clarifies the regulatory scope of flexibility for preferential services trade agreements between developing countries by linking the legal interpretation of WTO law with evidence from research in economics and political sciences. The book suggests that the current regulatory framework leaves room for meaningful flexibility for developing countries, and encourages policymakers and scholars to take these flexibilities into consideration in their design and study of trade policies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316789483
• Artikelnr.: 52989992

Autorenporträt

Charlotte Sieber-Gasser studied law in both Bern and Fribourg, Switzerland, and development studies in Manchester. She currently works as a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies in Geneva, and as a Lecturer in Law at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

Inhaltsangabe

Foundations
1. Special and differential treatment in the WTO
2. The rationale for South-South services trade
3. The quest of this study
Part I. Preferential Services Trade: 4. History and geography of preferential services trade
5. Stock-taking of preferential services trade agreements
6. The current level of liberalisation
7. The special case of South-South preferential services trade
Part II. Legal Regime for Preferential Services Trade: 8. Historical background of preferentialism in services trade and its regulation
9. GATS Art. V
10. Regulatory flexibilities in the GATS: special and differential treatment
11. Compliance with GATS worldwide
12. Loopholes in the GATS: problems in practice
13. Innovation in South-South agreements?
14. In summary
Part III. Legal Regime for South-South Preferential Services Trade: 15. The legal scope of flexibilities for South-South preferential services trade
16. Legal arguments for a large scope of flexibilities in the GATS
17. New approach to a better use of the scope of flexibilities
18. Systemic considerations
19. In summary
Part IV. Conclusions: 20. Lessons for the WTO
21. Lessons for the architecture of international economic law
22. Critical issues for future research.