Opening markets for trade in services countries and sectors in bilateral and WTO negotiations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Pascal Lamy -- Summary and overview / Juan A. Marchetti and Martin Roy -- pt I. From policy to negotiations. Services trade and growth / Bernard Hoekman and Aaditya Mattoo -- pt. II. Multilateral and bilateral negotiations on services : overall perspectives. Services liberalization in the WTO and in PTAs / Juan A. Marchetti and Martin Roy -- PTAs in services : friends of foes of the multilateral trading system? / Carsten Fink -- pt. III. Challenges, issues and opportunities in services sectors. Telecommunications : can trade agreements keep up with technology? / L. Lee Tuthill and Laura B. Sherman -- The liberalization of cross-border trade in services : a developing country perspective / Sumanta Chaudhuri and Suparna Karmakar -- Out of stock or just in time? Doha and the liberalization of distribution services / Martin Roy -- Air transport liberalization : a world apart / Pierre Latrille -- Financial services liberalization in the WTO and PTAs / Juan A. Marchetti -- Beyond the main screen : audiovisual services in PTAs / Martin Roy -- The liberalization of postal and courier services : ready for delivery? / Ruosi Zhang -- The liberalization of energy services : are PTAs more energetic than the GATS? / Mireille Cossy -- Market access for government procurement of services : comparing recent PTAs with WTO achievements / Robert D. Anderson and Anna Caroline Müller -- A warmer welcome? Access for natural persons under PTAs / Antonia Carzaniga -- pt. IV. Country experiences with services trade. GATS plus or minus? Services commitments in comparative contexts for Colombia and Uruguay / J. P. Singh -- Opening services markets at the regional level under the CAFTA-DR : the cases of Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic / Maryse Robert and Sherry Stephenson -- Why isn't South Africa more pro-active in international services negotiations? / Peter Draper, Nkululeko Khumalo and Matthew Stern -- Services liberalization in PTAs and the WTO : the experiences of India and Singapore / Arpita Mukherjee -- The domestic dynamics of preferential services liberalization : the experience of Australia and Thailand / Malcolm Bosworth and Ray Trewin -- The Chilean experience in services negotiations / Sebastián Sáez -- Appendix: A readers' guide to basic GATS concepts and negotiations.