Moving People to Deliver Services : How Can the WTO Help?

• Tác giả: Sumanta Chaudhuri
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 304.8 Movement of people
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2013
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 313048
• Chủ đề: 1. SERVICE PROVIDERS; 2. SKILLED WORKERS; 3. SOFTWARE INDUSTRY; 4. TRADE AGREEMENTS; 5. VISAS

Tóm tắt

The previous General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) negotiations produced little liberalization of the movement of individual service providers (mode 4), and the potentially large global gains from such movement remain unrealized. In the current negotiations, as part of the Doha Development Agenda, developing countries are seeking greater openness in their area of comparative advantage: the movement of providers unrelated to commercial presence abroad. At the same time, many multinational firms would like easier intra-corporate movement of their personnel. We describe how this coincidence of interest could be harnessed to deliver greater openness at least for skilled service providers.