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Regulatory Cooperation, Aid For Trade And The Gats

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  • Bernard Hoekman
  • Aaditya Mattoo

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. This paper discusses what could be done to expand services trade and investment through a multilateral agreement in the WTO. A distinction is made between market access liberalization and the regulatory preconditions for benefiting from market opening. We argue that prospects for multilateral services liberalization would be enhanced by making national treatment the objective of WTO services negotiations. Moreover, if complemented by assistance to strengthen regulatory capacity in developing countries, the WTO could become more relevant in promoting not just services liberalization but, more importantly, domestic reforms of services policies.

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  • Bernard Hoekman & Aaditya Mattoo, 2007. "Regulatory Cooperation, Aid For Trade And The Gats," Pacific Economic Review, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 12(4), pages 399-418, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:pacecr:v:12:y:2007:i:4:p:399-418
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0106.2007.00366.x
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    1. Bernard Hoekman & Aaditya Mattoo & André Sapir, 2007. "The political economy of services trade liberalization: a case for international regulatory cooperation?," Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Oxford University Press and Oxford Review of Economic Policy Limited, vol. 23(3), pages 367-391, Autumn.
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    4. Mattoo, Aaditya & Stern, Robert M. & Zanini, Gianni (ed.), 2007. "A Handbook of International Trade in Services," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780199235223.
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