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Services in Doha: What's on the Table?

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dc.contributor.authorGootiiz, Batshur
dc.contributor.authorMattoo, Aaditya
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-30T07:34:34Z
dc.date.available2012-03-30T07:34:34Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractServices trade reform matters, but what is Doha doing about it? It has been hard to judge because of the opaqueness of services policies and the opaqueness of the request-offer negotiating process. This paper attempts to assess what is on the table. It presents the results of the first survey of applied trade policies in the major services sectors of fifty-six industrial and developing countries. These policies are then compared with these countries' Uruguay Round (UR) commitments in services and the best offers that they have made in the current Doha negotiations. The paper finds that at this stage, Doha promises greater security of access to markets but not any additional liberalization. Uruguay Round commitments are on average 2.3 times more restrictive than current policies. The best offers submitted so far as part of the Doha negotiations improve on Uruguay Round commitments by about 13% but remain on average 1.9 times more restrictive than actual policies. The World Trade Organization's (WTO's) Hong Kong Ministerial had set out ambitious goals for services, but the analysis here shows that much remains to be done to achieve them.en
dc.identifier.citationJournal of World Trade
dc.identifier.issn10116702
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/5792
dc.language.isoEN
dc.relation.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.subjectTrade Policy
dc.subjectInternational Trade Organizations F130
dc.subjectInternational Law K330
dc.subjectIndustry Studies: Services: General L800
dc.titleServices in Doha: What's on the Table?en
dc.title.alternativeJournal of World Tradeen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
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dc.typeArtículo de revistaes
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okr.identifier.externaldocumentum815
okr.journal.nbpages1013-1030
okr.language.supporteden
okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.region.countryUruguay
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okr.volume43
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