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Evaluating the Contributions of Regional Trade Agreements to Governance of Services Trade

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  • Sherry Stephenson

    (Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI))

  • Maryse Robert

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Since the early 1990s, regional trade agreements (RTAs) covering trade in services have proliferated, with 95 RTAs on services notified to the World Trade Organization (WTO) under Article V of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), as of June 2011. This paper discusses how RTAs support or debilitate the GATS in its governance function as the keeper of rules and liberalization commitments on services trade for WTO members. It addresses this question and its implications for governance by focusing on four different issues : architecture; compliance; ability to promote reforms; and actual impact of RTAs on fostering services trade.

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  • Sherry Stephenson & Maryse Robert, 2011. "Evaluating the Contributions of Regional Trade Agreements to Governance of Services Trade," Trade Working Papers 23229, East Asian Bureau of Economic Research.
    • Handle: RePEc:eab:tradew:23229
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    Keywords

    Regional Trade Agreements; Services Trade; Governance; WTO; GATT/WTO;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
    • F15 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Economic Integration
    • F59 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy - - - Other

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