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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"gats"”.
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The Implementation of the Gats and its impact upon tourism development.
… 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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The impact of Gats: a case study of tourism development in Egypt.
… operation of the Uruguay Round Agreements (GATT, GATS, TRIPS, act) and to provide a forum for negotiations among members. The WTO's overriding objective is to help trade flow smoothly, freely, fairly and predictably. There is no doubt that the WTO and the GATS have assisted the growth of …
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GATS Impacts on Entry Modes and Defensive Marketing Strategies in the Egyptian Banking Sector
This research examines the effects of GATS agreements, both on entry modes and defensive marketing strategies in the Egyptian banking sector. The research population is the Egyptian banking sector, employing a total of 83179, from which a representative sample (equal to 800 responses) was selected. …
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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
… 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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The admission and enrolment of foreign legal practitioners in SACU countries as an international trade services issue
When WTO members make GATS commitments, it is imperative to do follow-up studies 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 …
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Ausländische Direktinvestitionen und Welthandelsordnung
… das General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) neben der Außenhandelsliberalisierung auch die Liberalisierung und den Schutz dienstleistungsbezogener Direktinvestitionen. In seinen investitionsbezogenen Bestimmungen kommt es daher, trotz konzeptioneller Schwäche, den Anforderungen an ein …
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Harmonization of SACU trade policies in the tourism & hospitality service sectors
… of Trade in Services, commonly known as GATS, so that a Tourism and Hospitality Services Charter may be moulded that may be used uniformly throughout SACU. The specific objectives of the research are: To analyze impact assessment reports and studies conducted on the Tourism and …
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TOBACCO USE, CESSATION, AND LOCUS OF CONTROL AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS
… <p> The Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) was modified for the purposes of this study and used to determine demographic factors and tobacco usage status. The modified GATS survey also included the LOC questionnaire which yielded the data. Seventy-four responses were recorded. The mean …
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South Africa awaits a possible new law banning foreign ownership and restricting domestic ownership of agricultural land: Is this in line with this country's obligations and commitments under the GATS and its BITS?
… of the Bill in light of the General and Specific GATS commitments such as the MFN, Transparency, National Treatment and Market Access Commitments. The outcome of this analysis shows that South Africa may violate its National Treatment and Market Access Specific Commitments by imposing the ban on …
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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)
… V of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). This dissertation therefore discusses the AfCFTA and whether it satisfies the criteria for legality under the WTO rules. With the AfCFTA still being in its preliminary implementation phase, most research on the AfCFTA focuses on what the …
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An analysis of the level of liberalisation in South Africa's transport sector
… the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in the transport sector. South Africa's transport sector in general is controlled by the government through state owned firms. The transport sector is competitive relative to Africa, however, relative to …
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Investigating the Structure and Function of IGP Synthase
… network of interactions, present in all known GATs, may serve as a model of allosteric regulation for the entire enzyme family. Through the use of SMD simulations to induce ligand dissociation and additional experimental kinetic assays, we elicited evidence of the allosteric effect in IGP …
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Freedom of Transit and Pipeline Gas : Can The World Trade Organization Provide a Viable Legal Framework for the Development of an International Gas Market?
… provision under GATT Article XXIII:1(b), and the GATS. This question has not been answered by WTO panels or examined sufficiently by scholars. The key contribution of this study to the existing academic literature on energy transit lies in the fact that this study analyses the above rules through …
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Creació de la pàgina web ACAIMA
… l'associació ACAIMA, la gestora de colònies de gats d'Olesa de Montserrat. S'han tingut presents, en el desenvolupament, que l'associació es pugui donar a conèixer a través d'aquest medi, s'augmentin el nombre de col·laboradors i la gent se sensibilitzi amb la causa. Per aquest treball s'ha …
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Building or stumbling, blocks anyhow: a comparative approach of regional labour mobility frameworks towards global solutions
… work and considering the unpopularity of the GATS. She concludes with a discussion on ‘new regionalism’ as an alternative until a shared international framework to facilitate migrations is set up, with the possibility of a merger between RTAs from the North and the South. This, she argues, …
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Services provisions in regional trade agreements : does the East African community stand to gain more from an integrated market?
… of RTAs tend to duplicate the use, found in GATS, of a positive-list approach to market opening, whereas others pursue a negative-list approach. The negative-list approach is modelled along the services provisions in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Much discourse has been …