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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Trade in Services"”.
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Understanding world and South African trade in services
Services trade has become a significant component of world trade and has been given more academic profile since its inclusion in the Uruguay Round of GATT trade talks. However, the paucity of academic work means that services trade is still poorly understood and lacks significant statistical analysis. …
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The SADC protocol on trade in services : a review of the protocol in light of the GATS and other SADC protocols and what it means for trade in services in the region
In 1995 the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) came into force. This is the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) legal instrument aimed at regulating multilateral trade in services (TiS). GATS was negotiated in light of the increase in TiS in the world and the need to regulate this area of …
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A social networks framework to study the influence of language on international trade in services.
… theory has been overlooked as a tool to examine relationships in economics whereas all economic interactions create networks, some more complex than others. Specifically, attempts to estimate drivers of bilateral trade fall in this category. A significant number of studies explaining trade …
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Energy related services in Kenya: Implications of unbundling the electricity sector on trade in services negotiations
Electricity is a basic infrastructural service necessary for the achievement of developmental outcomes. The use of electricity, specifically, serves economic as well as social needs. It is universally accepted that electrification enhances quality of life at the household level and stimulates the …
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Rules of origin for services in economic integration agreements : a case study of SADC
The origin of services is increasingly relevant against the backdrop of technological innovation and global value chains. Rules of origin for trade in services are especially important in Economic Integration Agreements, which are proliferating in response to the changes in global trade and …
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An analysis of the level of liberalisation in South Africa's transport sector
… of various sectors of the economy both trade in goods and services hinges on an efficient and reliable transport services sector. South Africa has undertaken limited commitments under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in the transport …
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Services provisions in regional trade agreements : does the East African community stand to gain more from an integrated market?
Services are the fastest growing sector of the economy. With the advent and development of technology, trade in services has grown more rapidly than trade in goods in world production. This has also resulted from ongoing economic reforms and the development of more liberal policies. Prior to the …
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The Implementation of the Gats and its impact upon tourism development.
The research is aimed to examine the implementation of the GATS and its impact upon tourism development, particularly in Korea. The GATS (General Agreement on Trade in Services) agreement has been implemented in order to liberalise World Trade in services. In this respect, the research examines the …
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International Trade in a Competitive World: Empirical Evidence from the UK
This thesis aims to provide helpful insights into trade in goods and services. The first two chapters focus on the micro-level determinants of international trade in services in the UK: The aim of the first chapter is to investigate the determinants of trade in services in a gravity framework, …
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Political cleavages and the global privacy regime
Since 2000, there was a huge increase in the number of jurisdictions with privacy laws. While some of the jurisdictions had comprehensive laws which covered both the private and public sectors, others had laws which only covered either the public or the private sector. Yet others had independent …
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Trade policy implications of economic partnership agreements (EPAS) between the European Union (EU) and Namibia
… former European colonies, is traditionally enjoying preferential trade market access to the European Union (EU). This means goods from Namibia are facing lower tariffs and non- tariff barriers when entering the European market. This trade regime between the EU and Namibia was enshrined in …
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Harmonization of SACU trade policies in the tourism & hospitality service sectors
… a needs analysis for the tourism and hospitality industries of South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland. This will be followed by an alignment of these industries with the provisions of the General Agreement of Trade in Services, commonly known as GATS, so that a Tourism and …
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Digital trade and development: A way forward for Africa at a continental and multilateral level
This paper argues that digital trade can benefit developing countries and result in substantial financial gains. The regulation thereof has been at the forefront of negotiations at the multilateral level and within regions of Africa. While developing economies do not typically reap the benefits of …
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Limits on state autonomy in regulating services trade: regional and international trade liberalization commitments and public morals
… explores the scope of the autonomy of the states in regulating services trade in areas that concern their public morals and analyses whether the indeterminacy of the public morals exceptions in supranational trade regimes reveals fundamental flaws in the design of those regimes as they apply to …
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Causation in the Law of the World Trade Organization
The law of the World Trade Organization (WTO) both explicitly and implicitly requires that a determination of causation be made at a number of points. In several of the WTO covered agreements, an important part of making a determination about causation involves separating those factors that are …
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Whether the African Continental Free Trade Area (AFCFTA) agreement satisfies the requirements for ‘legality' under the applicable WTO law governing regional trade agreements (RTAS)
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement is a potentially transformative regional trade agreement (RTA) which aims to stimulate intra-African trade. It exists alongside other RTAs, and alongside the World Trade Organisation (the WTO), which is the umbrella body for international …
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Essays In international trade and labor markets
This thesis develops empirical methodologies to investigate the effect of globalization on welfare and inequality both between- and within-countries. The first essay proposes a Roy-like model where workers are heterogeneous ill terms of their comparative and absolute advantage. We show that the …
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The admission and enrolment of foreign legal practitioners in SACU countries as an international trade services issue
… to establish how each member adheres to her international obligations and the laws they profess to uphold. To this end, the dissertation calibrated each SACU country's GATS commitments in the background of the laws underpinning those commitments as a way to see if they uphold international …
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Development of global inter-country inter-industry system for various policy perspectives
Globalization and international economic integration are not new phenomena. However, the recent evolution of global supply and procurement networks has significantly changed foreign dependencies both for inputs (imports) and outputs (exports). These important changes in global production systems …
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