Trade in Services and the Development Agenda
Date of Award
2011
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelors
Department
Social Sciences
First Advisor
Coe, Richard
Keywords
WTO, General Agreement on Trade in Services Development
Area of Concentration
Economics
Abstract
In the Ministerial Declaration commencing the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations, it was announced that this Round would seek to incorporate the developmental concerns of WTO member-states. The tensions between non-discriminatory trade and developmental intervention have long been a source of frustration in WTO policy making. This thesis identifies a potential development tool contained in the text of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and discusses its feasibility in the WTO system. The tool, called the Protectionism-through-Liberalization Result, is first developed by examining the legal and economic features of the trading system that allow for its existence, then it is analyzed within the institutional context of the WTO to identify potential issues, and is finally examined through its economic, particularly developmental, effects.Keywords: WTO, CATS, Services, complementarities, development, India.
Recommended Citation
Cobb, Logan, "Trade in Services and the Development Agenda" (2011). Theses & ETDs. 4364.
https://digitalcommons.ncf.edu/theses_etds/4364
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