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The Global Financial Crisis And Government Support For Banks : What Role For The GATS?
This paper examines whether the GATS is a useful instrument to tackle government support that creates distortions of international competition in the banking sector. The GATS has no specific ...
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"Next Generation" Trade and Investment Agreements: Upcoming Challenges for Public Services
This is an excellent recent presentation by a EU public services group about the attacks on public services in the EU by the trade agreements of countries like the US ('next generation' trade deals ...
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GATS' Article XXI procedure.
We must dump GATS before it dumps us!
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Perilous Lessons: The Impact of the WTO Services Agreement (GATS) on Canada's Public Education System
Written for professionals and citizens alike, this book provides a primer on a little-known agreement within the World Trade Organization, the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). It ...
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Trade Negotiation Capacity and Health Carve-Outs in Trade Agreements
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GATS Article XXI procedures on WTO site
The procedure for removing a specific service sector, like "health insurance" or "higher education" from a country's Specific Commitments (WTO site)
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Maine CTPC Health Care Subcommittee Draft Report on GATS barriers to state health care reforms
US states thought they could just implement a statewide single payer system, many seem to still think that. But they were wrong. This report to the state of Maine shows what they found out! This ...
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Model clauses for the exclusion of public services from trade and investment agreements ( EPSU & Markus Krajewski)
This paper discusses how trade agreements could be modified in the EU to protect their existing public services from trade and investment agreements which are designed to tear them apart and ...
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Putting Health First - Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Canadian Health Care Reform, Trade Treaties and Foreign Policy - this essay describes the traps in the GATS agreement for Canadian health care, and it also would totally apply to a hypothetical US ...
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The Potential Impact of the World Trade Organization's General Agreement on Trade in Services on Health System Reform and Regulation in the United States. (2009)
This paper is perhaps one of the best introductions to the GATS and healthcare issue for Americans on this site. In this 2009 paper, the late Nicholas Skala, explains the "GATS" agreement, and its ...
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